{"id":49027,"date":"2019-06-06T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/friday-ceremony-at-jdhs-will-honor-victims-of-guardian-crash\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:50:00","slug":"friday-ceremony-at-jdhs-will-honor-victims-of-guardian-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/friday-ceremony-at-jdhs-will-honor-victims-of-guardian-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday ceremony at JDHS will honor victims of Guardian crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guardian Flight and local authorities are holding a tribute service Friday for employees who were killed in a crash<\/a> in January, and it’s expected to be a large event.<\/p>\n

The memorial will take place at 1 p.m. Friday at the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé auditorium. The approximately 80-minute ceremony will honor pilot Patrick Coyle, flight nurse Stacie Rae Morse and flight paramedic Margaret Langston. Morse was pregnant with a child she planned to name Delta Rae.<\/p>\n

Anybody is welcome at the event, and doors open at noon. Around 45 family members of the victims will be in attendance, Capital City Fire\/Rescue Assistant Chief Ed Quinto estimated. Quinto is acting as the liaison between local authorities and Guardian Flight organizers.<\/p>\n

[Community pays respect to those aboard missing plane]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n

Personnel from Guardian, CCFR, the Juneau Police Department, the U.S. Coast Guard and American Medical Response (the national organization that Guardian’s a part of) will be involved, Quinto said. Guardian Executive Director Jared Sherman said there will also be people from the other two local medevac companies — Airlift Northwest and Life Med Alaska — will also be in attendance.<\/p>\n

During the ceremony, people from these organizations will speak, as will representatives from each family. Sherman said people from the town of Kake — which was the flight’s destination when it crashed Jan. 29<\/a> — will also speak.<\/p>\n

“The Kake community really stepped up during that search and the search process,” Sherman said, “so we felt connected and wanted to make sure they were part of this tribute.”<\/p>\n

For those who can’t make it, the ceremony will be live-streamed at alaska.guardianflight.com<\/a>. A simultaneous ceremony will be happening in Anchorage, Sherman said, and the two events will coordinate to have a moment of silence at the same time.<\/p>\n

[Juneau climber survives 30-foot fall<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

Toward the end of the ceremony, family members will be presented with flags, Sherman said. If the weather cooperates, there will be a fly-over with a Temsco helicopter and possibly a Coast Guard helicopter, Sherman said.<\/p>\n

Organizers expect a large turnout, and will have overflow seating with TVs outside the auditorium, Quinto said.<\/p>\n

The tragedy resonates with first responders, Quinto said, and they’re looking forward to working with Guardian to put the event together.<\/p>\n

“At any moment,” Quinto said, “this can happen to any of us.”<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Contact reporter Alex McCarthy at amccarthy@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @akmccarthy.<\/b><\/p>\n

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