CareFlight marks 40 years of flying the hospital to the patient

A CareFlight helicopter lands in Belrose after a teenager is badly hurt in a mountain bike fall. It lands again in Dee Why, where an infant is having a suspected allergic reaction. Weeks later it returns to Belrose for another mountain bike injury, and then goes to Forestville, where a woman is trapped under a vehicle. All of these happened on the Northern Beaches in 2026. By July, the rescue helicopter had been tasked to incidents in the area more than 20 times. For 40 years CareFlight has been sending doctors and paramedics to give critical care at the scene, and demand is still rising. (Ed's note: We are often asked if there are more flights than there used to be, every second day we are...

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