St. Johns County, Fla. (The St. Augustine Record) - St. Johns County now has a trauma helicopter stationed within its borders, which means patients who need critical care will be able to get to the right hospital faster.

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New South Wales, Australia (Canberra Times) - Fire tore through about 25 hectares outside Bungendore as both ground and air crews battled to contain the blaze on Jan. 5.

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Kodiak City, Alaska (Popular Mechanics) - A daring airlift of 18 Shell workers is a vivid reminder of the way Alaska's extreme conditions compound risk, and that when things go bad in northern waters, all hope is with the Coast Guard.

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Queensland, Australia (Noosa News) - Two paddlers had a lucky escape when they got into difficulty in big seas off Wurtulla. The SLSQ Westpac Rescue Helicopter was going past at the time and saw they were in serious trouble.

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On Dec. 15, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department, the San Bernardino County Fire and Sheriff Departments, and the United States Forest Service/Angeles National Forest received an emergency call that two hikers were stranded just below the summit of the Mount Baden-Powell.

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Stratford-upon-Avon, England (Stratford Observer) - Duran Duran star Simon Le Bon has launched the Children's Air Ambulance. The dad-of-three is a patron of the charity. The Children's Air Ambulance will transfer critically-ill youngsters from general hospitals to intensive care units across England and Wales.
 

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Jacksonville, Fla. (jacksonville.com) - They are eyes in the sky for Jacksonville Sheriff's Office officers on the ground. But Air Unit officers Steve Vaughan and Steve Strickland’s helicopter hovered close to the deck recently when both had to hit the water to rescue people in two separate incidents.

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Vancouver, Canada (kamloopsnews.ca) - Waves as high as a two storey building and powerful, 50 kilometre per hour winds couldn't interfere with an RCAF search and rescue helicopter as it raced to rescue an injured crewmember from a freighter, 100 kilometres west of Tofino.

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spiegel.de - A deer that got trapped in ice on a frozen lake in northern Germany narrowly escaped death thanks to the ingenuity of a helicopter crew that happened to be flying by.

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Santa Barbara, Calif. (ksby.com) - The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office has unveiled a new aircraft, and says the helicopter, named "Copter 3," is going to change the way it helps the community.

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