Morongo Tribe Puts Air Ambulance Into Operation To Serve Reservation

BANNING (CNS) – An air ambulance tasked with serving the Morongo Band of Mission Indians’ reservation and surrounding communities in the San Gorgonio Pass was standing by for deployment Monday. According to the tribe, the new twin-engine Airbus H-145 helicopter operated by Global Medical Response went into operation over the weekend, available for dispatch to provide life-saving medical evacuations handled by the tribe and the Riverside County Fire Department. The medevac chopper was put into service less than a month after the tribe activated a new advanced life support ground ambulance staffed with full- time firefighter-paramedics. “The Morongo ground and…