Air medical transport service to set up base in Port Angeles

Life Flight Network to start local operations March 29

PORT ANGELES — Life Flight Network, the largest not-for-profit air medical transport service in the United States, announced today that it will open a new base at the William R. Fairchild International Airport.

The base will begin operating March 29.

The crew will offer ICU level care to communities in Clallam, Jefferson and Island counties and will be capable of responding to calls for transport from anywhere in Western Washington and Southeast Alaska.

For more on this story, see the Peninsula Daily News’ Friday edition.

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