On Wednesday afternoon, April 1st, a flight crew with the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion rescued a park visitor suffering from cardiac arrest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The visitor was located in a remote area of the park southeast of Gatlinburg, along the North Carolina border. Flight paramedics administered first aid to the patient throughout the flight to UT Medical Center in Knoxville.
A Tennessee Army National Guard UH-60 Blackhawk lands at Dillons Gap parking lot along Kuwohi Road, in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, to airlift a park visitor suffering cardiac arrest to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, April 1. (submitted photo)
