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Click any of the emergency, trauma and Life Flight Network healing stories below to read about amazing people and their miracles, or use the links at left to jump to a specific topic.

Cowgirl Up:
The Amanda Jo Coats Story
It was a Friday evening and Amanda was on her way to cheer camp. Her eyes left the road for only a couple of seconds and when she looked up, her car had crossed into the oncoming lane of traffic. Amanda lost control of the car as it left the road, bounced through a ditch, and then stopped by a telephone pole.
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Gathering of Saints:
The Jim Crouch Story
It was late afternoon on St. Valentine’s Day, 2009, and it had been a perfect day of skiing on Idaho’s Brundage Mountain. Jim and Duane were both expert skiers with years of experience on back-county powder snow. In an instant, their day changed for the worse. Pleasure skiing would give way to rescue skiing - one friend trying to save the other.
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Changing Lives:
The Allison Powell Story
Allison was an upbeat and motivated 19 year-old, living on her own. She had a plan for her future and was ready to put that plan into action. But her plans were changed, and her life changed forever when a casual party ended in disaster.
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Gerardo Reyna:
The Goal is Life
Teamwork is defined as a task performed by several associates, each doing a part to achieve a common goal. Nowhere is teamwork more essential than in healthcare, and no one is more grateful for the team approach than Gerardo Reyna. It saved his life.
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David Trumbo:
An Unexpected Survivor
The phone rang at 2:00 a.m. on May 11, 2003. It seemed like a nightmare unfolding for David Trumbo’s grandparents, as they answered the chilling call and listened as a Saint Alphonsus' Emergency Department nurse explained that David was there – desperately fighting for his life.
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Mary Lynn Matlock:
Life Flight Gave Her a
Second Chance
When a helicopter passes overhead most of us don’t give it much thought. But for Mary Lynn Matlock, that distinctive sound is a reminder she is living out her second chance at life. It’s been 20 years since Life Flight gave her that chance.
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David Cole:
Sixteens-Year-Olds
Are Not Immortal
When you’re a sixteen-year-old boy you’re immortal. You have no fears, no boundaries and no doubts. But something almost stopped David Cole, and it came from an unlikely source. It was the bite from an unseen mosquito infected David with West Nile virus, and he nearly died.
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Katie Juker:
Trauma Healing Story
Katie Juker was a senior at Twin Falls High School and the only girl accepted into the small engines and fabrication class.
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Jay Reinke:
Off-Road Rescue
Snow was glistening in the morning sunshine as Jay Reinke rode his snowmobile through the Magic Mountain region near Burley on March 31, 2005.
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