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Year Honored
2020
Honoree
Maddox Burts
Title
Flight Paramedic, MICP
Agency
Medevac Alaska
Agency City
Anchorage
Agency State
Alaska
Last Call
11/29/2019
Cause of Death
Air Medical Crash
Biography
Flight Paramedic Maddox Burts died in a medical airplane accident alongside Flight Nurse Robert Cartner and EMS pilot Glen Morthorpe while en route to pick up a patient. Maddox came to Alaska from Fairhope, Alabama, near Mobile, to work part of the year as a paramedic for Medevac Alaska. He became a paramedic after the birth of his daughter. For Maddox, being able to combine emergency medicine and helping people in a place like Alaska with such beautiful wildlife and landscape made him incredibly happy