Reno - Care Flight, a non-profit community medical helicopter service, has announced the first-ever "Flight for a Good Cause" fundraising event.
Care Flight is giving the public a unique opportunity to experience first hand what it is like to ride inside a medical helicopter without the emergency. Care Flight will spend three Saturdays offering flights at each of its three base locations as part of a fundraising campaign designed to generate funds to go toward life saving equipment.
Flights will be 15 minutes and are $75 per seat with 3 seats available per flight. Each seat on board will be a window seat and the flight patterns will be pre-set depending on the location of each base.
The fundraising flights will be on the following days and times:
Saturday, Sept. 22, at the Truckee Airport, 1211 Chandelle Way, Truckee, Calif.,
September 29 at the Carson Valley Medical Center, 1107 Hwy 395, Gardnerville, Nev,
October 6 at REMSA, 450 Edison Way, Reno.
The first flight of each day is scheduled for 8 a.m. with a new group taking-off every 30 minutes after.
"We are really looking forward to this inaugural event," says Kurt Althof, Public Relations Manager at Care Flight. "This is a really unique way to raise funds for our program while giving the public a very unique opportunity and up close experience with the Care Flight program."
"Care Flight has been serving the Northern Nevada and North Eastern California regions since 1981 and yet we are still somewhat a mystery to the public," said Temple Fletcher, program director. "We hope this event will also serve as a step in improving the understanding of what we do."
Care Flight will use its fourth aircraft for this event so that there will be no interruption to the regular service provided to the region. Seats are limited and available by reservation.
For more information or to reserve a seat, visit www.care-flight.com, or call 775-353-0762.
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