Residents of Igiugig used vehicles to light up a runway, enabling a plane to land and pick up a girl needing medical aid.
Residents of a remote village in southwest Alaska united on Friday night to light up a runway with their vehicles, enabling a medical plane to land safely.
The LifeMed Alaska medevac plane needed to pick up a child in Igiugig who required medical assistance and transport to a hospital in Anchorage, about 280 miles to the northeast.Ida Nelson, a tribal clerk and newsletter editor for the village council, jumped into action. Nelson made 32 calls requesting assistance, and at least 20 residents ― many of whom were wearing pajamas ― showed up to light the runway with their vehicle headlights so the plane could land. Nelson was also there with her all-terrain vehicle.. “I was anxious and nervous and I was like, ‘So what if that was my baby [waiting for that] plane.’”Igiugig coming together was a matter of course“It’s an ordinary thing to happen here in such a small community,” she said.
A photo snapped by Nelson shows the vehicle headlights from the ground, while the LifeMed Alaska Facebook page shared a glimpse of the view from above, praising Igiugig for “a little ingenuity and a lot of determination.”Residents of Igiugig lit up the runway of the village's small airport with their vehicles, enabling a medical assistance plane to land there last Friday night.
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