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silverandzlo · 2 years
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Have you ever wondered the story of Canada's first air ambulance story? Why is there so little information on such a historic event? Because the first call was such a disaster no one but the family involved wants to remember. Well I am a member of the family involved so buckle up!
It is February in 1946 and my great grandma is in labor during a snow storm. It was going badly. A call was made and the air ambulances was sent out. Two of her children were sent out to start and keep a fire going so the plane could find them. Mother and oldest daughter got on the plane to the hospital. Three kids died. No it wasn't triplets. But how can a single birth results in three deaths without even including the mother? Well one of the kids sent out to signal the plane got pneumonia and died. The daughter that went with got an infection at the hospital and died. And they lost the baby at the end of it all. Had there been no air ambulance there would have only been one death.
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