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October 24, 2007 Staff report
The Air Force is sending an aeromedical evacuation team from Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, to the southern California region affected by devastating wildfires, the 59th Medical Wing announced Wednesday.
The three-member team — known as a critical care air transport team — was expected to depart for California by Thursday, according to a Wilford Hall press release.
The fires have burned about 410,000 acres, or 640 square miles, near San Diego and Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported. They have destroyed 1,500 homes and caused at least a half-million people to flee, according to the AP.
The CCAT team consists of a critical care physician, critical care nurse and respiratory therapist. The team’s mission is to operate an intensive care unit in an aircraft cabin during flight.
“Our people are trained to provide CCATT support for battlefield injuries, and this same expertise is available to provide disaster relief in situations like the one in California,” Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Thomas Travis, 59th Medical Wing commander, said in a statement. “This is what we are trained to do, and we are ready to help.”
CCAT teams have been essential in providing a nonstop continuum of care that extends from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to state-of-the-art medical facilities in Germany and the United States.
October 24, 2007 Staff report
The Air Force is sending an aeromedical evacuation team from Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, to the southern California region affected by devastating wildfires, the 59th Medical Wing announced Wednesday.
The three-member team — known as a critical care air transport team — was expected to depart for California by Thursday, according to a Wilford Hall press release.
The fires have burned about 410,000 acres, or 640 square miles, near San Diego and Los Angeles, the Associated Press reported. They have destroyed 1,500 homes and caused at least a half-million people to flee, according to the AP.
The CCAT team consists of a critical care physician, critical care nurse and respiratory therapist. The team’s mission is to operate an intensive care unit in an aircraft cabin during flight.
“Our people are trained to provide CCATT support for battlefield injuries, and this same expertise is available to provide disaster relief in situations like the one in California,” Maj. Gen. (Dr.) Thomas Travis, 59th Medical Wing commander, said in a statement. “This is what we are trained to do, and we are ready to help.”
CCAT teams have been essential in providing a nonstop continuum of care that extends from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan to state-of-the-art medical facilities in Germany and the United States.