National EMS Memorial Service Honoree

	Hallie Burns Iowa Methodist Medical Center Lifeflight Des Moines, Iowa

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.

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.

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.

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.

Honored 2000