Residents of a small Alaskan town used their vehicles to light up a dark airstrip to help a medevac plane land to pick up a patient on Sunday.
Residents use their vehicle lights to help a medevac plane at an airport in Deering, Alaska.Residents of a small Alaskan town used their vehicles to light up a dark runway to help a medevac plane land so it could transport a patient on Sunday.
A light fixture at a Deering Airport runway had been out of commission after gravel and ice damaged the system, according to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. The broken lights forced workers at the Deering Clinic to contact community members to come up with a plan to help light the runway.
Deering, Alaska, residents used their ATVs and trucks to light up the runway allowing the medevac plane to not only land, but also take off once it picked up a patient at the Deering Clinic. "It was very heartwarming," a community health aide at the Deering Clinic told ABC News. "We all came together to make it possible and then it was so cool when the medevac landed; the Northern Lights came out."The lights at the runway at the airport had been out since Dec.
Perreault said it wasn't the first time that Deering residents used their vehicles to illuminate a dark runway, saying they did this in 2020.Copyright © 2022 ABC News Internet Ventures.
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