An air ambulance service is available directly from William R. Fairchild International Airport to Puget Sound hospitals more than a month earlier than planned.
Life Flight Network, which now serves Clallam and Jefferson counties, announced last week its intention to start up service March 29. Instead, under a verbal agreement with Port of Port Angeles officials, the Aurora, Ore.-based not-for-profit began basing its emergency Agusta-Westland helicopter last weekend at the port’s William R. Fairchild International Airport west of Port Angeles, company Regional Director Jacob Dalstra said Wednesday.
A Life Flight Pilatus PC-12 fixed-wing aircraft based at Fairchild will serve southeastern Alaska.
Dalstra said Life Flight was available for emergency flights beginning Tuesday.