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Year Honored
2000
Honoree
Hallie Burns
Agency
Iowa Methodist Medical Center Lifeflight
Agency City
Des Moines
Agency State
IA
Last Call
3/3/80
Cause of Death
Medical Aviation Accident
Biography
She especially enjoyed her work as a nurse in Intensive Care and Cardiac Care Unit, and enjoyed even more her work as a Lifeflight nurse.<br /> <br /> Hallie Burns was killed instantly on March 3, 1980, when the air-ambulance she was riding fell to the ground on an approach landing at the Hamilton County Hospital in Webster City, Iowa. The team was to transport a heart patient to Iowa Methodist Medical Center for treatment. Two other crew members' lives were lost. Mechanical failure is thought to have been the cause of the crash.<br /> <br /> She attended YJB High School in Jamaica, Iowa. Hallie received her RN Degree in May, 1976, with a special emphasis on Intensive Care Unit and Cardiac Care Unit nursing. She took 10 weeks of special training to be one of six Lifeflight nurses to accompany the 24-hour medical emergency room helicopter service, and had been working flights for the past eight months.<br /> <br /> Hallie Burns, 25, is survived by her mother, Marilyn Burns, her adoptive-father, Gene Burns, two brothers, Tim and Tom, five sisters, Barbara Edwards, Bonnie Burkhardt, Kathryn Day, Chris Sutherland, and Kim Smith.<br /> <br /> Honored 2000