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Glacier County EMS paramedic Robert Gordon (left) and EMT Camas Rinehart put together advanced life support bags for their ambulances. Glacier EMS is one of the few paid services along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front that responds when volunteer agencies can't, and provides advanced life support transfers from critical access hospitals to larger facilities miles away. (Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio)
DUTTON, Mont. - Vern Greyn was standing in the raised bucket of a tractor, trimming dead branches off a tree, when he lost his balance. He fell 12 feet and struck his head on the concrete patio outside his house in this small farming town on the central Montana plains.
Greyn, then 58, couldn't move. His wife called 911. A volunteer emergency medical technician showed up: his own daughter-in-law, Leigh. But there was a problem. Greyn was too large for her to move by herself, so she had to call in help from the ambulance crew in Power, the next town over.
"I laid here for a half-hour or better,"...
