A medical flight crew from the Tennessee Army National Guard performed an emergency air evacuation mission for a hunter in Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest, on Thursday, May 4. At approximately 1 p.m., the Tennessee Military Department and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency were notified of a person with severe leg injuries needing rescue from a rugged and remote area of the park near Boiling Springs.
Once the crew arrived at the rescue site, the patient was hoisted into the Blackhawk helicopter. The rescue took just 13 minutes.
Once everyone was safely on board, the aircraft then flew to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville where the aircraft landed, and medical personnel received the patient. The entire rescue mission took less than an hour and a half.