The State Health Department today dedicated Mississippi’s first memorial for emergency medical services personnel who’ve died in the line of duty.
“We have 23 names on the memorial,” says Teresa Windham, State EMS Director.
And she says they hope they never have to add any more names. Those deaths date back to a mid-air collision involving a medical helicopter and a small plane over Houma, Louisiana which killed a paramedic from Gulfport in 1989. A total of seven helicopter crew members are on the memorial including the most recent deaths– the three University of Mississippi Medical Center AirCare personnel who were killed in March of this year…