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May 25, 2018
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Life Flight: New app could save precious minutes
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transport easier for hospitals
and first responder teams
working to save lives.”
Life Flight is the largest non-
profit air medical transport
service in the United States,
serving Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana.
The new tool was developed
in partnership with dispatch
software creator Flight Vector.
In emergency medicine,
prompt medical attention can
mean the difference between
life and death, the company
wrote in a press release. The
faster a patient gets to care,
the better the chance of sur-
vival.
The app provides additional
functions, including a search-
A Life Flight helicopter assists in a rescue on the Oregon Coast.
able hospital directory, a
landing zone guide and push
notifications on education and
training events. Once a flight
call has been made using the
app, users can track the air-
craft’s movement and see
when it’s expected to arrive.
Blight: City begins targeting properties
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There are properties dot-
ting the city that need to be
cleaned up or torn down, the
city commission determined.
The most visible are the top
priorities.
Earlier this month, a fall-
ing-down blue house on Har-
bor Drive was demolished af-
ter the city notified property
owners they had 10 days to
remove the nuisance or face
fines and further action.
An old gas station on Main
Avenue across from City Hall
received some attention, but
not enough. The property is
owned by the Marilyn and
Richard Baumann Trust of
Salem.
“The property looks a lot
better than it did last week,”
said Kevin Cronin, the city’s
interim community develop-
ment director. “But there are
still five cars that are inopera-
ble, in my opinion, and I rec-
ommend we carry on.”
On Tuesday, commissioners
voted 5-0 to continue with
the nuisance proceedings.
The next targeted property,
at the corner of South Main
Avenue and 11th Street, is
owned by Clatsop County.
The abandoned house was
seized after the absentee
owners failed to pay property
taxes. It is uninhabitable.
Mayor Henry Balensifer re-
quested permission from fel-
low commissioners to write
a letter to Clatsop County
officials, asking them to be-
gin the process of declaring
public nuisances on several
properties along Highway
104, which is the continua-
tion of South Main Street, but
outside of Warrenton’s city
limits.
A property at South Main
and Ninth Street was inherit-
ed by a neighbor recently after
owner Wendell Petersen died.
The house and two ware-
houses are filled with junk
and the new owners have
inquired about getting help
from the city for its cleanup.