This story appeared in the July 2025 issue of “Dispatches.“ Why Rebecca and Doug Thompson Support LifeFlight The Thompson family’s first air medical transport was in 1986 in Massachusetts, when Rebecca and Doug’s son Jack was born. Jack arrived nearly a month before his due date and was flown by airplane from the hospital where Rebecca […]
This story appeared in the July 2025 issue of “Dispatches.“ LifeFlight of Maine is one link in the chain of survival for those facing critical illness or injury, and that chain is straining. It has been for years. In 2015, LifeFlight of Maine transported 1,633 patients. In 2020, LifeFlight transported 2,130 patients. In 2024, LifeFlight […]
This story appeared in the July 2025 issue of “Dispatches.“ Stacie Newman remembers the June 2017 birth of her son, Joseph, as a smooth process with no complications. While she admits the unknowns of childbirth can be scary, especially the first time, everything went as planned for Stacie and her husband, Zach, who drove to […]
Welcome to our Summer 2025 issue of Dispatches! The past few months have been turbulent times, filled with volatility, disruption, divisiveness, and in some cases despair. We hope you find this issues of Dispatches to be a welcome relief from all of that. In these pages, you will read stories of kindness, generosity, resilience, leadership, […]
“I’m a lifelong Washington County girl,” Hollye Lord said during a recent visit to LifeFlight of Maine’s Bangor hangar. She lives in Meddybemps, a small community between Calais and Machias. She has worked as a nurse at Down East Community Hospital in Machias for the past five years, and prior to that at Calais Community […]
As an independent nonprofit, LifeFlight of Maine depends on community support to fulfill its mission. Every gift made to LifeFlight is put toward ensuring that everyone, perhaps even someone you know, will receive the care they need when they need it most. Cheri Smith needed the care of a LifeFlight team in 2024. After suffering […]
Cameras Available for Public Use LifeFlight of Maine now has the largest collection of publicly accessible and privately maintained aviation weather cameras in the nation. The organization recently completed its weather cameras project with the installation of its 35th camera. Now, LifeFlight is working to share these cameras with the public. LifeFlight’s pilots use the […]
Dispatches shares stories from the patients, supporters, crew, and communities that make LifeFlight of Maine one of the premier air ambulance services in the nation. It is published three times each year by The LifeFlight Foundation. Download this issue as a PDF. Stories in this issue of Dispatches
On October 17, 2024, LifeFlight of Maine completed its 40,000th patient transport. Oliver White, who had a life-threatening congenital heart defect, was transported in a LifeFlight helicopter from Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital in Ellsworth to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Max and April White never expected their son’s first flight to […]
Linda Varrell is President/CEO of Broadreach Public Relations and a board member with The LifeFlight Foundation. Being prepared is important, even critical, to success in most cases. It’s challenging enough to prepare when you know what to expect. But extend that challenge to an indeterminate number of possibilities, attempt to prepare for each situation you […]
