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02/05/2007: "Practice Makes Perfect"

(EMT Rebecca Smith takes a turn as a "patient" after EMT -and husband- Francis Smith aids in a loading drill)

When most of us were relaxing on a rainy Saturday, 17 members of the San Juan Island EMS (Emergency Medical Service) and related personnel were training for introduction of the new Air Ambulance service that Island Air will be offering starting in February.

In addition to class time, the participants went through drills of loading and unloading a "patient" into the back of the specially configured Cessna. The single engine plane is the only plane of it's kind approved by the FAA in the continental USA., and is large enough to transport one patient, two passengers and the pilot.