🚁 Help STARS save Dan! Donate now at rescueontheriver.ca 🚁 S7E9 – STARS: Life-Saving Missions and Community Impact Dan Aberhart talks with Darren Entner from STARS about what it takes to deliver critical care from the sky. From real rescue stories to the logistics behind each flight, this episode highlights why STARS matters—and how you can help Dan raise $50,000 to keep the birds in the air.
STARS flies more than eleven missions a day across the Prairies, and nearly four thousand in a single year. Most people only hear about it on the worst day of someone's life.
Darren Entner, Clinical Operations Manager at STARS in Regina, joins Dan to talk about what air rescue actually looks like for rural communities: the kinds of calls the crews respond to, how the technology and logistics hold together under pressure, and how community support keeps the whole thing flying. Dan also explains why he agreed to be dropped into a remote location for a fundraising challenge on STARS' behalf.
What's Inside
- What kinds of missions STARS flies, and how scene calls differ from hospital-to-hospital transfers
- How the technology and operations behind a critical care aircraft work in rural areas
- How province-to-province differences, including Manitoba, change what a mission looks like
- Why patient stories, not statistics, are what the crews carry with them
- How community fundraising keeps STARS in the air
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