A Life-flight helicopter lands in Ridgway Pa to transport a patient for urgent care.

Most people don't realize that those spinning blades, (depending on humidly,etc.) generate a lot of static electricity. This is the very first helicopter video that I,ve seen where you can see the sparks jump to the ground several times when that right side landing skid touches the ground. Look closely and you will see it! Interesting indeed.

27 years of Fire / Ems , Helicopter landings and take off,,, never gets old .

Best 6 years of my EMS career was as a flight medic but you are also a flight mechanic as well always watching your tail, making sure you don’t hit power lines, etc. then there’s the rotor wash…. It’s all in all an incredibly fun job ❤

I myself have to thank them for saving my life. I landed and hit my Head and ended up with a Blood clot in my head. That happened November 2022. Thank you all for your Recuse. 🙏🙏

they saved my life about 5 years ago i was flone to altoona troma center for a month

Years ago, I was part of the LZ crew for lifestar out of Erie, pa. What is being shown here is called a hot load,which means the engine is running at medium speed.

I cannot count the number of times I have assisted with a landing zone we have a interstate highway and have done many scene flights landing them on the main highway kudos to that pilot for a awesome job of setting that bird on the ground we have a local crew that fly over my house all the time

On april 4th my dad had an accident on our property while cutting firewood. A big branch fell and hit him in the forehead. Life flight landed in our field and transported him to presby in Pittsburgh. I remember doing a few "hot loads" when i was a fireman. It's pretty intense when you're right under the blades loading a patient.

God bless ‘em - some of the most dangerous flying in the world.

I saw a rescue and med evac flight up close in Denton, TX in 2005 on the street behind the house where I lived. A driver had slammed into a light pole and the first driver on scene happened to be a trauma nurse that stopped, rendered aid, and called 911. She got the police, medics, and rescue there. They called in CareFlight to evacuate the guy to Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The nurse did an excellent job when taking control. I never did find out if the guy lived. He was in really rough shape when the helicopter took off with him. The nurse sat behind him in the car supporting his head once rescue got there until they loaded him onto the backboard and stretcher for transport.

awesome video!

Actually the flight crew usually consists of the pilot, flight nurse and flight paramedic, not two nurses. I flew almost 10 years as a flight medic and all of our crews were set up that way.

Great footage. Just got my RN license and hoping to become a flight nurse.

Got medivac from one hospital to another due to a heart issue last year down here in Florida. 6’2 and 310lbs… they had to find a helicopter to fit me and the equipment I had connected to me being in was intubated. Never realized they had limits on patients sizes. Great footage though! I wish I could remember my flight.

Looks like an EC 135, very common patient transport helicopter in US. Thank you to all who do this work!

Awesome clip and good information! Thank you for posting!

As the Airbus H-145 had landed, you can hear the engines go to idlde. I fly this very same H-145 in Flightsim and use a dedicated Action Pack to get and fly missions like these... Great video!!!

These pilots are very skillfully trained pilots 🚁 thank God 🙏 we have them.

I hope you never need a medevac but its great to have them when they are needed. I rolled my truck and they flew me off the side of a mountain in Colorado. I could feel myself leaning and the nurse told me they landed on the side of a mountain just fo me. 😢 Flight crew fire /emt's ❤

One of the crew members is a flight paramedic