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Fresh wounds for sole Md. Medevac crash survivor

By Jenna Johnson
Washington Post

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, Md. — The emergency medical technician leaned over and whispered into Jordan Wells’s ear. The weather is too bad for the helicopter to land at Prince George’s Hospital Center. We’re turning around.

The news didn’t scare the 18-year-old any more than what she had already been through that night: crashing her car on a rain-slicked road in Waldorf, learning that she and a friend would be flown to a trauma center.

But soon the medical helicopter began to rock, Wells said, describing the Sept. 27 ordeal in her first detailed interviews. Her eyes darted up to the EMT, Tonya Mallard, and to an onboard paramedic, Mickey Lippy. They were clinging to their seats.

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