The Art Deco styled Pacific Tower on Seattle's Beacon Hill and Mount Rainier as viewed through the tail rotor of an Airlift Northwest Eurocopter EC-135 at Harborview Medical Center. Better known as the Pacific Medical Building, the 16-story Art Deco building opened as a Marine Hospital in 1933.
Airlift Northwest is a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Washington that provides emergency medical transportation throughout Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho. Dr. Michael Copass founded Airlift Northwest in 1982. They make over 3200 medical transports a year, operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Earlier this Spring their helicopters transported 5 survivors of the Oso landslide to region hospitals. The first victim airlifted by Airlift Northwest was an infant that was brought to this landing pad at Harborview Medical Center.
Pictured here are two of their Eurocopter EC-135s - N139AM and N954AL. The EC-135 has been in service with police and ambulance services around the globe since 1996. In 2013 it was reported that the EC-135 was providing a quarter of the world's civilian emergency medical services flights.
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