Transportation challenges create one of the most daunting barriers to healthcare—a barrier second only to the cost. As a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization, Angel Flight West’s volunteer pilots fly people to their medical appointments at no cost to the passenger. AFW also provides transportation for families and individuals escaping domestic violence, therapeutic programs for children and veterans, and children’s specialty camps.
Angel Flight West provides air transportation within and across only 12 Western States: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
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Since 2009, volunteer pilots in the Northwest, along with emergency services resources, have been organizing to utilize general aviation when the expected Cascadia Subduction Zone great earthquake occurs, along with a likely great tsunami. In addition, the area has a number of active volcanoes which could also cause widespread destruction.
EVAC’s Northwest Region Emergency Services Director, Sky Terry, realized that with all the waterways in the Northwest seaplanes could be of great utility, being able to get into stricken communities where roads may have washed out or been covered by landslides. With this addition of water based aviation to the land based aviation / general aviation response effort, the West Coast is developing a very robust response resource.
Sky, along with others, have developed relationships bringing together statewide aviation and emergency service agencies, several pilot organizations, and local authorities to work in mutual support of this effort in Washington State and also to spread the program to other states.
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Fat Pig BBQ was established in 2018 by Bao Truong. Bao has always enjoyed cooking barbeque for his family & friends at his home. Bao later realized that he wanted share his passion to provide great barbeque to everyone in the Greater Seattle Area. Shortly after, Bao left his Civil Engineering job and opened the doors to Fat Pig BBQ in Edmonds.
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