VIDEO: People use cars to light rural runway for emergency medical flight in Peru
Deep in the Amazon, a tiny airstrip serves as one Peruvian town's connection to the outside world.
VIDEO: People use cars to light rural runway for emergency medical flight in Peru
In the Amazon rainforest, a tiny airstrip serves as one Peruvian town's connection to the outside world. When a mother, her newborn baby, and a 17-year-old boy needed to fly from Contamana to a hospital for urgent medical attention in the middle of the night, a local radio station broadcast the need for help. Within 30 minutes, people responded and nearly 300 vehicles were lined up to help light the runway for takeoff.
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Comments (3)
God bless them.— JusWonderin
Great story. Here in the US...no one would have showed up...especially in the cities.— Professor1982- That is completely untrue. And it's a really stupid idea to make a generalization like that about 300,000,000 people.
It says a lot about you and your attitude and lack of knowledge than it ever does about the US.
You know...you hate Philly and the US and its people so much (as you show constantly), why don't you just leave? And please--go some place without internet access, you sour, old, uninformed troll.— Tatt2
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