By Leslie Modica
Foster’s Daily Democrat
Copyright 2007 Geo J. Foster Company
DOVER, N.H. — The Fire Department is struggling to cope with news that a former Dover firefighter is one of four people aboard a Medevac helicopter that went missing in Alaska Monday night.
John Stumpff, who now works as a nurse in Alaska, boarded the helicopter Monday to transfer a patient to an Anchorage hospital from Cordova, Alaska, which is located about 150 miles southeast of Anchorage.
The patient, Gay McDowell, 60, of Cordova; a pilot, Lance Brabham, 42, of Soldotna, Alaska; and a paramedic, Cameron Carter, 25, of Kenai, Alaska, were also on the flight.
A search was launched for the twin-engine aircraft when after about an hour into the trip, the pilot failed to check in for position updates, which are supposed to be issued every 10 minutes, according to the Associated Press.
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