By FERNANDO DEL VALLE / Valley Morning Star HARLINGEN – Heavy winds ruffled red and white roses that fluttered on the helicopter pad where pilot Robert Goss launched the Valley AirCare helicopter Tuesday. South Texas Emergency Care board members met late Wednesday morning for a briefing on the accident that killed Goss, paramedic Michael Sanchez...Read More
Jeremy Brilliant/Eyewitness News Morgan County – Police say it may be a week before they conclude an investigation into why an SUV crossed the center line and collided with an ambulance, killing two people and injuring one. The Brown Township ambulance was struck Monday on State Road 144 near Mann Road. On Tuesday, City of...Read More
BY JENNIFER MALONEY | [email protected] Edward Mueller loved helping people. As an emergency medical technician for the West Islip volunteer fire department, he would roll out of bed sometimes several times a night, pulling on the clothes he laid out beside the bed and grabbing the keys he hung beside the front door. Mueller, a...Read More
Rescue workers have recovered the body of Valley AirCare pilot Robert Goss, who died Tuesday with two crew members when their EMS helicopter crashed in the Laguna Madre. Goss and paramedics Michael T. Sanchez and Raul Garcia, 38, of Weslaco, were en route from Harlingen to South Padre Island to answer an emergency call when...Read More
Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio identified the two dead paramedics of Tuesday night’s crash of a Valley AirCare helicopter in the Laguna Madre as divers continued to search for the pilot this morning. Lucio said that the two paramedics are Michael Sanchez of Harlingen and Raul Garica, 38, of Weslaco. Officials are awaiting awaiting National...Read More
Mooresville — The Morgan County coroner conducted autopsies Tuesday on two men killed in a head-on crash Monday. Coroner Dan Downing said final results from the autopsies won’t be in for weeks. The two men, Brown Township Fire Capt. David Sherfick, 40, Mooresville, and James R. Hoskins, 45, Nashville, were pronounced dead at the scene...Read More
