Patient airlifted out

Personnel from Upper McKenzie and McKenzie Fire & Rescue worked together on one of the January 6th calls. The upriver department responded first to a 3:50 p.m. medical call in a Mutual Aid zone first, while crews from McKenzie Fire arranged for a helicopter landing zone. The patient, in the 48000 block of McKenzie Hwy. was experiencing a heart issue that necessitated the LifeFlight air ambulance transport.