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I REAL ESTATE
Arlington Texas
' 1.Office sale �� Motor;
3602 S.Cooper St. Speedway E 'Flower
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PS TAX Specialist,a tax firm,has w€SECOUNTY ® DEN'1'ONcOUNTY
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bought a 1,105-square-foot sxo Arling ,prraaine
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3.Building sold
2020-2024 Exchange Drive STAR-TELEGRAN
I .The limited partnership Americo foot office warehouse.
Exchange has purchased a Euless Brokers: Patrick Kevlin with
36,531-square-foot building. 5.Bank lease Keller Williams Flower Mound
Brokers:Michael Spain with the Glade Road and Texas 121 negotiated the sale.
I Bradford Cos.represented the View Point Bank has leased a
buyer.Suzanne Nash with 51,519-square-foot pad site to 7.Apartments sold
Champion Management repre- build a bank at The Shops at 5709 E. Belknap St.
sented the seller,Seelcco Part- Vineyard Village. The 346-unit Desert Sands
I ners Arl. Brokers:John Zikos of Venture Apartments complex has -
Commercial and David Hardesty. been sold by Thurman Apart-
4. Building sold of Hardesty Realty Group repre- ments of Dallas to a private
I1924 Baird Farm Road sented the landlord.Greg Brac- investment group from Little-.
The International Union of chi of Staubach Retail Services ton,Colo.The 21 building
Elevator Constructors Local 21 represented the bank. complex was built in 1984. It
has purchased the 13,044- was 86 percent leased at the
I square-foot office warehouse Haltom City time of the sale.
building.It will occupy 9,374 6.Building sale Brokers:Al Silva of Marcus&
square feet. 4308 Garland Drive Millichap's Fort Worth office
Broker: Darrel Higginbotham of Inspection Tech Services,a and Kelley Sparkman of the
I SCM Real Estate represented property-code consulting firm, firm's Dallas office negotiated
the seller,Reid Warehouse, has purchased the 4,800-square- the deal:
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COLLEYVILLE I SUBDIVISION
I City seeks details
on development
By JOHN KIRSCH
jkirsch@star-telegram.com 8
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COLLEYVILLE - The City Glade Rd.
Council asked for more de-
tail Tuesday on a proposed
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The developer, Landstat , z
L.P.,is seeking to rezone the r
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planned unit development
residential. That designa- Cheek
tion gives the city more con- Sparger Rd.
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Landstat wants to buildF -
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2 1 single-family residential p, 20
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lots and two commercial lots
on 108.5 vacant acres in the Landstat L.P.wants to build a
4900 block of Heritage Ave 274-home development along
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ing material. STAR-TELEGRAM TIM BEDISON
The council heard the
first reading of the zoning scheduled for Nov 6.
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'reading and a vote are JOHN KIRSCH,817-685-3805
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TWO CENTENARIAN S HAVE SIMILAR ADVICE:
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BE HAPPY, LOVE A LOT
go b " said Cheri Har- Green was. designated John Parker,owned more than. 1
Both are blessed with good ple y, b
health,good friends and mon, activity director. "She "Mother Beatrice Green" by 100 acres in Mosier Valley
told of her life,her career as a the church many years ago, "
loving family members. from the Trinity River to[Tex- 1
telephone operator and her :,and has five generations living as] 183,,5 which•he divided
It's spell-binding for anyone success of over 70 years of :near here,Wilson said. with his family to farm; she
who loves history to sit and marriage,and she said, 'if youGreen said Mosier Valley said.
chat with Beatrice Green and want to have a good marriage, !was a black community, Hart, who has four grand- 1
Alice Hart,who will celebrate you have to work at it," Har- ,named after an old man called children and six great-grand-
their 100th birthdays together mon said. - „ `Moses." children, "is a very strong
beginning at 2 p.m.Nov.13 at Green, one of 12 children, Her grandmother, Betty woman,"her daughter-in-law,
Legend HealthCare and Reha- and her late husband,Clifford' Farrow Parker,and her brother Ann Green, said. "She's fun to I
bilitation Center in Euless. Green,had two children,a son were born into slavery but be around and laughs a lot."
Green's birthday is actually who died the day of his birth Were brought to the Mosier "Mother always loved to
Nov 4, and Hart's Nov. 25, so and daughter, Walter Mae Valley area when Betty was dance, and she'll say, 'I'm 99," ii
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they'll celebrate in between. Green Pearson, who passed about 10 and were reared by and then shell do kind of a jig
Both have been blessed with away in 1995. Green loves to , another family,Frank and Lish sitting down,"added her son.
good health and are not in any tell of growing up in the Mosier Young. Green's• grandfather, Harmon said she feels very
pain,they-said. Valley area of Euless where she lucky to have discovered two 1
"I'm just as well as I can be, was born. angels in one nursing home.
and even my conscience .is She was designated"Moth- "Both have almost the
clear,"Green said,laughing. er Beatrice Green" by Euless' same advice for living a long
Hart is looking forward to Cathedral of Faith Church of life: 'Smile, keep happy, keep '
being 100 "if the good Lord's God in Christ, where she has busy and love everyone.'They
willing,and I'm still here,"she been,a member since she was have many years of experi-
added. 16 'and is known by church ence, wisdom and beauty to 1
Hart, who was 4 when her members for her diligence in share with you."
father died,was born in Lon- • praying and being a blessing Hart's English background MI
don, England; said son Ray- to so many, grandson Danny also comes into play when
mond Green,a retired.chem- Wilson said in a previous in people tell• her "goodbye," 1
ical engineer who is 77.He and, terview. Harmon said."She always says
his wife, Ann, live in North . , t x `toodle-oo.'" .
Richland Hills. } � � ro .
His mom, one sibling ander
S' € � �,.,. PAT NIMMO RIDDLE,817-685-3802 1
Tier mother later moved to De- x x'. `6 ti
troit,Mich.,where other fami w _ 7 .. 3
ly members had moved earli-
er,Raymond said.She and her .t ' i • • £;t 1
first husband, Charles Green, r : t5 � �# ,, '"'M..
had two sons and werew. ..„,,„•25 years before his death. $� , ' h `� # t,
Their younger son, Donald, f" ��� I
was killed in a motorcycle ac t: • ,
cident in the 1970s. ra ,�£ z ` tom 3
She later married Walter gr .gi y F : �4g I Hart, a delightful man of 93, W y�Z g
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who lives with her at the rehab % b
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ried 52 years,"love to sit in the .61 • " 1 1
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Alice Hart,left,and Beatrice Green will celebrate their 100th birthdays together next month at Legend
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I A FIGHT FOR FLIGHTS
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EMS units bypasse
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records s ow
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PHI's helicopter took more Such ties are becoming in-
• than 30 minutes to reach Brid- creasingly` common in the
ges,who was ultimately flown competitive air ambulance in-
to Parkland Memorial Hospi- dustry, in which people who
Physician says his ties to a tal, where he was treated for oversee local EMS agencies
'firm don't influence decisions broken That t heli
decisions and other
was insur in also work for air medical pro-
made by agencies he oversees ,
50 miles from the But these alliances, critics
scene, although it is not clear say, can lead to delays in hos-
where it came from. pital care for critically injured
I What happened to Bridges patents as well as unnecessary
By DANNY ROBBINS drobbins@star-teIegram.com that night was part of a pattern helicopter flights that can cost
Late on a June night in 2006, Keenan Bridges lost con- repeated more than two dozen patients as much'as $10,000
�frol of his motorcycle on a winding stretch of Farm times m the last two years in when ground transport would
the area: EMS crews did not be sufficient.
Road 664 in Ellis County call the closest helicopter am- Yamada's method of com-
The accident, about five miles north of Brides' bulance service.
Bridges' pensation from PHI, $2,000
In each incident, the EMS monthly ome in Waxahachie, sent him flying into a roadside unit on the ground and PHI for every active base
ditch,his body so battered he was unable to move and shared the same medical.di-. it has in the region, differs
arely able to breathe. rector,Roy Yamada. from that of the doctors serv-
ing
Yamada, a Fort Worth h - mg other major air medical
.Paramedics from the Midlothian Fire Department p Y operators in the area,state re
quickly arranged for Bridges, 45, to be transported bysician, works as director of cords show. Those physicians
p emergency are paid annual fees unrelated
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elicopter to a Dallas trauma center. medicine for to the number of bases they
Midlothian
But instead of trying to summon the closest available supervise.
and in a simi-
helicopter ambulance, they only contacted one corn- � Tying a medical director's
lar role for
Zany, PHI Air Medical. compensation to the number
a nine other of bases could be viewed as an
, =a�,.• area EMS de- incentive to increase flights,
Yamada partments, say some industry observers,
Imost in Tar because bases can only re-
rant County. He is also PHI's main open when their heli-
North Texas medical director, copters are being used fre-
a position for which he has ap- quently.
' parently been paid almost,
$200,000 in 2Yamada said his EMS units
'/z years. are supposed to call for the
closest available helicopter.
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Only when proximity to the Closest roviders I
scene is not a factor would PHI P
be the preferred operator, he , N *Cje ton { .so ing] from long distance totally
said. Because PHI's medical1, ? defeats the concept."
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procedures are similar to ;�®� �. �; ; Using one service over an-
those of the units he directs, A� other because of familiarity
patients receive consistent 75 with its medical director isn't.
sw • uncommon, but it makes no
care,he said.- MENTON COUNTY COLLI 1 COUNTY
In a subsequent e-mail,he -- - ------ --- - a — — sense when significant time is
was more emphatic."My cities 1, •'+ lost, said Michael Brunko, ]
call the closest aircraft for ourpresident of the board of trust-
patients in need, without re ees of the Air Medical Physi-
gard to the color of the air- AV Fort ��z Dallas 30 cian Association. A few min
craft,"he wrote: ' " Worth o'o • r utes may not make much of a
Dispatch and other records • ao �, difference,he said.
show that PHI has received the Q �" a I ]o "The question is, how far I
vast majority of the helicopter z° d,a •• 20 Z do you stretch that?" he said.
calls from Yamada's EMS units ?: xs 17.1 :, 12 "I wish we knew " •
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since he was hired by the com- I
pang in April 2005. The re- - __ 67 _ ( `It's so political' ,
cords obtained by the Star- JOHNSONCOUNTY 7 • Yamada's relationship with
Telegram under the Texas • PHI is- part of the changing
Public Information Act, also 1z ?s as L•, landscape of the air ambu- '
show more than two dozen in- IO lance industry,which has seen
e� a Accidrfir
stances in which PHI helicop • .4 scene :,, an influx of for-profit opera-
ters were directed to accident Cleburne I 2, tors as a result of increases in
,-,,-;-‘4, Medicare reimbursements_for
scenes when they were not '
those based closest to the' ;Q CareFlite �� 6� air transports.
sw 'O�4 PHI Air Medical is a unit of
scenes. _— r PHI Air 5w < ; ® Lafayette, La.-based PHI Inc., '
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Tho units under Yamada's ® Medical e(o ., ,� a publicly traded company
direction — Midlothian and Corsicana
/ 0 10 • 20 ,,�' • that,primarily provides heli-
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport — _. � ` -.`�r\ , Q, copter transportation for oil
regularly did so before recent- ,� „mils and gas companies operating
ly revising their policies, the Keenan Bridges wrecked his motorcycle on FM 664 in Ellis County. in the Gulf of Mexico.It began �'
records show. When paramedics determined that Bridges needed a helicopter operating in North Texas in
Failing-to seek the closest ambulance,they called only one company,PHI Air Medical,even 2003, entering a market long ,I
available helicopter can affect though CareFlite—a competing service—had closer bases. dominated by CareFlite, a '
the odds that a patient will be STAR-TE�e�Rary nonprofit service based in
transported to.a hospital with Grand Prairie..
in the so-called golden hour, The company In most parts of the coun-
the time frame widely cited as PHI Air Medical try,gaining influence with first I
the most critical for saving, What it does:Helicopter and fixed-wing air ambulance service. responders can be a key to
lives. Where it operates:68 aircraft at 55 locations in 12 states generating business in the air
"Truly,the only benefit [in Based:Lafayette,La. medical industry because
using a helicopter] is speed in there is no centralized '
dis-
getting the patient to defini- The parent company patching system.
tive care,"said Bryan Bledsoe, PHI Inc.,formerly known as Petroleum Helicopters Inc. "The tactic is identify a
an emergency physician in Core business:Transporting oil and gas company personnel to medical director or a very
Midlothian who writes about offshore drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico: prominent member of the '
EMS issues and is an adjunct In business since: 1949 EMS community and hire
professor at George Washing- Publicly traded(Nasdaq)as:PHII him," said Bledsoe, a former
ton University. "Flying over Fort Worth paramedic and '
another helicopter [base] or EMS medical director for
waiting for a helicopter[corn= agencies in North Texas.
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It's natural for some EMS from calling CareFlite to PHI The helicopter that re- Schrodt said the length of
medical directors to be affili- . after he became affiliated with sponded to thescene required time was brought to his atten-
ated with air medical provid: the company and continued 32 minutes to get there after tion by Dale McCaskill,Midlo-
' ers, Brunko said, because calling PHI first throughout giving an estimated time of 18 thian's deputy chief and train-
there is a relatively limited the period. minutes,according to the time- ing officer,who joined the de-
pool of physicians'willing to The Midlothian Fire De-` sequence detailed in the Fire partment in January after
I take on these responsibilities. partment's practice of direct- I Department's report.There is working in Rowlett, where
Physicians serving in both ing its helicopter calls to PHI no mention of where the heli- CareFlite is regularly used.
roles must be particularly raises particular questions be- copter was coming from.. "Until that point, I really
mindful of their duty to put cause it continued for nearly a The accident report pre- didn't understand the dis-
t patient care ahead of self-in- year and a half after the corn- pared by the Texas Depart- patch process,"Schrodt said.
terest,he said. pany closed its base at Execu- ment of Public Safety identi- Since May, Midlothian has
Brunko,the medical direc- five Airport in south Dallasin fled the helicopter transport- required its personnel to seek
tor for nonprofit Flight for Life December 2005.After that,its ing Bridges as being based in the closest available helicop-
' Colorado, said he and others helicopters were no longer the McKinney. Howard Ragsdale, ter, departing from a process
on the nonprofit side worry closest director of PHI Air Medical that was based on paramedics'
that for-profit air medical On 22 of 24 occasions be-', Group, said he could not say requesting whatever service
companies are creating an en- tween Jan. 1,2006,and June 1 where the helicopter came "they felt comfortable with,"
Ivironment that can compro- of this year,when air transport` from,cautioning that it could Schrodt said.
mise physicians'ethics. was called, Midlothian EMS have been anywhere in the He said that to his knowl-
"It's no different than [a personnel summoned PHIarea. Each base has a single edge there were no directives
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doctor]having ownership in a without checking with Care helicopter. from Yamada regarding the
laboratory" he said. `Are you Flite,records show. Bridges said he can remem- department's using PHI.
being a little biased m who you The calls raise the possibil ber little about that night. He Midlothian's change fn
direct your patients to use?" ity that PHI helicopters from didn't know hehad been trans- thinking also occurred less
' Yamada,63,strongly stated McKinney and Meacham In : ported by helicopter until he than two weeks after the Star-
Telegram
that he is not using his posi= , ternational Airport in north. was told about it at Parkland, Telegram contacted McCaskill
tion to help PHI. Fort Worth flew past CareFlite' he said.And,he said,he didn't to ask how the city handled its
"PHI doesn't expect me to bases at Methodist Central-. know it was PHI that had air ambulance calls.
I generate flights," he said. Medical Center near down- transported him until he re- "Our-medical director, Dr.
"That's not part of my duty" town Dallas and Hams Meth- ceived a bill from the company Yamada,has influenced some
Yamada, who was named odist Hospital near downtown for approximately$10,000. of that by saying he wants,if at
the state's EMS medical direc- Fort Worth to reach accident' But a friend of Bridges'who all possible,for PHI to respond
Itor of the year in 2001,said he victims in%Ellis County. had been following him that based on response time," he
is frustrated by the politics of Bledsoe, who formerly night,Tammy Hunt,vividly re- said at the time:
the air medical industry, served as the Midlothian Fire called the scene. She said she After initially talking to the
which he believes has made Department's emergency remembers growing increas Star Telegram, Yamada did
' him a target medicine director, was sur ingly nervous as.Bridges re- not respond to an e-mail seek-
medicine director,
it's horrible," prised that PHI helicopters mained in the care of para- ing comment on the number
he said. "If I didn't want to were still being used after the, medics and time dragged on. of calls to PHI in Midlothian.
' make a difference in air med- Dallas base closed. . "It seemed like •it took for
ical,I'd get out of[it],because "I just assumed like every- ever for the helicopter to get Making connections
it's so political." body else that CareFlite was there;"she said. AtD/FW Airport,EMS person-
coming down here,"he said. Midlothian Fire Chief Da- nel began contacting PHI for
IA change in procedure One of the patients affected vid Schrodt said he knew that helicopters in mid-March
The Star-Telegram reviewed was Bridges,who lost control PHI's helicopters were fre- 2005 and used the company
dispatch records for air ambu- of his motorcycle after attend- quently summoned by his per- exclusively until airport offi-
lance calls by Yamada's units ing a Mavericks-watching par- sonnel,but he only saw it as a cials conducted a detailed re-
' for a 2 1/2-year period starting ty on June 8,2006. problem after a May 6 incident view of the situation in the
Jan. 1;2005. Paramedics can be heard in which the Corsicana heli- spring.
His units generally shifted on dispatch recordings telling copter took 23 minutes to The review was initiated af-
the dispatcher to put PHI on reach an accident scene. ter CareFlite President and
standby The dispatcher can The accident"involved a Chief Executive Jim Swartz
then be heard talking to PHI woman who fell off a four- s ought to learn why the air-
and being told that the corn- wheeler and was bleeding port's EMS unit wasn't calling
I pany's Fort Worth helicopter from her head, according to his service when its base at
was unavailable and that the the department's report..
closest likely would be coming
from the company's base in
Corsicana. •
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Methodist Central in Dallas is Documentsfrom the .air EMS units directed by Dr. RoyYamada I
the closest to the airport.. port's review indicate that the
"I just wanted to make sure official who conducted it,Jim The EMS units from the following fire departments receive
they.recognized where all of Crites, scrutinized.Yamada's medical direction from Dr.Roy Yamada:This list shows when he
our assets are and took that in relationship with PHI but was hired and his most recent annual compensation:
to account,"he said recently, wasn't troubled by it.
EMS When Amount
The airport's review found Crites, the airport's execu-
that all but one of its 14 heli- tide vice president of opera- agency started paid
Allen 2007
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copter calls between Jana 1, tions,noted in his report that $35,000
2005, and April 1 of this year Yamada served both PHI and Bedford 1998 $15,000
were to PHI. The lone call to .the airport but was not listed Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. 2000 $20,000
CareFlite during that period in filings by the Securities and Euless - 2003 $17,500
was in January 2005, three Exchange Commission as a Hurst 2003 $17,500
months before Yamada be- shareholder or director of the Keller 2004 $15,000
came affiliated with the com- company. Midlothian 2001 $10,000 I
parry. When informed recently North Richland Hills
Alan Black, the airport's that Yamada's pay is tied to the 2000 $21,500
Pantego 2004
vice president for public safe- number of operating bases in $7,000
Richland Hills $7,000 I
ty, said in a recent interview theregion,Crites said the mat 2001
that he was unaware of any di- . ter "does give me pause" and Source:Departmental records
rective from Yamada to use Earis best served bylivid- Higher convinces him that the
PHI. 'School in August 2006. Yamada's relationship with
He said he could not ac- ing its business between the After providing an estimat- PHI was reviewed in June 2005
count for how PHI came to get two services. ed time of arrival of 10 min by Keller's city manager at the
all of the airport's business. utes,PHI informed Keller dis- time, Lyle Dresher, records
"I mean, it evolved," he Delayed response patch 14 minutes later that its show.
said. "If it would have,hap- Different questions'stemming helicopter had yet to leave Dresher sent an e-mail to
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pened all at once, where one from the use of PHI's helicop- Meacham,according to the in- fire Chief Kelly King asking a
day we were using CareFlite ters have surfaced in Keller, cident report number of questions regard-
and the next day PHI,it would one of seven Tarrant County CareFlite was .then dising Yamada and PHI, includ
have been an obvious thing. communities with EMS units patched to the scene. ing whether he had an owner-
But because it did evolve over under Yamada's direction. "PHI's response has been ship`interest in the company
time,it wasn't obvious" Keller EMS beganrouting that at the time the Meacham After being informed that Ya
D/FW instituted a system its calls to PHI in June 2005,a aircraft was down getting their mada was a contract employ-
using both
mploy usingboth services in June af- few weeks before the compa AC worked on and that their ee of PHI,Dresher sent King a
ter previously allowing para- ny's base at Meacham became dispatch did not know what return e-mail saying the
medics to decide on their own, operational.The arrangement their full status was," Parsley arrangement was not a prob-
he said. was ordered by Scott Parsley, later wrote in an e-mail to his lem.
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Black, who served as the the department's EMS divi- dispatchers. "If it helps, y'all Dresher;now the town ad-
airport's fire chief before being sion chief did a good job working rninistrator in Argyle, said re-
promoted to his current posi- Parsley noted in his direr through the mess, and the Gently that he isn't sure wheth
tion in August,said that rotat- five that PHI would contact Young man is at home recov er he would have reacted dif '
ing calls between PHI and another service if it could not erinr ferently had he known Yama-
CareFlite makes sense be- provide an acceptable .esti- Parsley also wrote that he da's compensation was tied to
cause it allows for connections mated time of arrival. was concerned that CareFlite the bases. I
with both services, an impor- But since the system was had required 20 minutes to "If we're responding to
tant factor for the airport. implemented,Keller has exile- reach the scene after giving an. emergencies as rapidly as we
"We live and die out here rienced a series of incidents in estimated time of arrival of•14 can," he said, "I guess that's
based on how well we do in a which helicopters were de- minutes. the bottom line." I plane crash," he said. "PHI layed in getting to accident Parsley declined to be in-
can't save me if I've got a plane scenes,records show terviewed for this report.
crash.I'm going to need every One involved a teenage boy An e-mail Parsley sent to a
helicopter'i can get. The last who was severely cut and PHI official in February indi- '
thing I need to do is alienate a bleeding after he fell through a cated that he was considering
provider such as [CareFlitel,." sheet of plate glass at Keller changes that would include
having dispatchers check the
availability of the Meacham
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tem,an online service for first
responders, and calling Care-
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I A major expansion The company reported an'
Yamada was hired by PHI be operating loss of$4.4 million
cause his knowledge of the for its air medical segment in
200— Dallas-Fort Worth area and his repo But it noted in its annual
work in EMS made him the report that several months are
best person for the position, typically required to build
said Jay Lance Kovar, PHI's flight volumes that can absorb
operating medical director for Texas. costs and generate
Yamada is a former emer- profit.
gency room physician who In a memo to his EMS units
stopped treating patients in 2005 informing them of the
' when he was diagnosed with closing of PHI's Dallas base,
leukemia in late 2000. Yamada indicated the.impor-
He has worked with EMS
tance of his units to PHI.
agencies M North Texas since This restructuring will
I 1998 and has focused his enema' make the other three bases
gy in that direction since his stronger,and already the flight
diagnosis. volumes have increased," he
"I didn't pick Roy because wrote. "Thank you for your
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he was going to bring more support of PHI Air Medical,as
business," said Kovar, who is we advance'the Continuum of
Care' that is started on the
the medical director for the - „
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District north of Houston and Kovar said the increased
also directs PHI's Hous on business for PHI is the result of
area bases.,"I picked Roy
be- numerous factors.
' cause I respect the guy and he "There'sgoing to be a for
rat increase m flight use for
knows the area." , PHI because CareFlite can't be
Kovar said "management everywhere at the same time,
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issues" with the `previous he said. 'And the other piece
North Texas medical director that factors into it is the indi-
caused him to make a change. vidual paramedic and fire de-
Yamada is paid by the de- partment preferences:"
I partments he serves on a con- Kovar, who oversees `six
tract basis in,varying annual bases, said he is paid $2,000
amounts. His -most recent per base each month and that
contracts paid him a total of he recommended that Yama-
I $165,500,in amounts ranging da be paid similarly.
from $7,000 to $35,000, re- "For somebody to sit
cords show around and sign some papers
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The manner in which his and not do anythingelse,
contract with PHI is structured
that's a lot of money,"he said.
means he was entitled to re- "But if you're out there,you're
ceive approximately$190,000 training,[paramedics], you're
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from the company in the 21 tag to hospitals, you're
years he has been affiliated running the business, you,
with it.PHI currently operates should be paid appropriately."
three.bases in the area;at one He acknowledged that
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time,it had four. structuring a contract in such
Yamada replaced a physi- a manner is"atypical,"but he
cian who was paid a straight said it is simply a way of pro-
$36,000 annually and had no - viding a high level of compen-
' ties to local EMS departments.
PHI's move into North Tex- plan.
sation,not an incentive based
as was part of a major expan- "This is just the way-the
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sion that ultimately would company operates," he said.
lead the company to open 37 "They put a lotof money into,
new bases nationwide. - the clinical'part.They put a lot
of money into their medical
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directors. But they - expect
something out of it—a quality
product." ex
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oV.IC �� The.cities. of Euless, ` of the buildings we worked
i Bedford and Hurst met on ten years ago;such as the
v together with the HEB Senior Center, Library and
Chamber of Commerce the Texas Star Conference'
recently to hear the"State of Centre. We constantly
the Cities,"- City Managers work on replenishing our
from all three cities city streets, sidewalks and
presented their future plans sewer system.
for each city, and what will October is also Fire
,' be accomplished in the next Prevention month across the
_. ; *~ ' few years. The looks of our nation. Our firefighters visit,
cities have changed so much neighborhoods and schools
recently that a visitor who educating children and'
lived here earlier would citizens on fire safety.Euless
,,:4!•' . , some of
recognizehas such a great program for
vt, hardly rY the original places. our students with the Clown
r In Euless, we have Safety_ Program. Clowns'
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,f, • remodeled or completely (firefighters) present plays
f. Mayor Saleh renovated every city facility. ` on good fire safety and
Our last project was a new send a message with their
Euless Public Works building now entertainment activities.
f___11_t ` `-'-7--O ._--- located off Westpark Way, On October 19, our Park
E , SS east of Fire Station 2. You and Community Service
may remember its former will be hosting another
location on Central Drive in evening at Bob Eden Par
Bedford. That's correct... called "Stars over Euless.'
Bedford. Come see the planets an
October begins our fiscal stars in our sky with the help
year, and Euless looks of the University of Texas ail
forward to another great Arlington Planetarium staff.
year with new homes, new Halloween is just around the
businesses, and shopping corner and the pumpkins ar
centers. This next year we showing up in the market
will berefurbishing some along with a plentiful
supply of apples and gourds.
Euless hosts a "Halloween
'Thriig 'aid'wa°
F Park Recreation Center foil
all little goblins and thei
families on October 31,
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1 .2 maybe behind scores. ®eburglaries
More arrests are possible in, car, and cruised North Texas How the investigation - men and a companion were
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what investigators believe apartment complexes looking unfolded arrested.
is a nationwide operation. for easy pickings,according to Rental-car and credit-card Investigators believe they
a search warrant affidavit re- records lead to the arrests of have shut down a burglary
I By DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR. leased Thursday afternoon. three people after a ring that may have been hit-
ramirez@star-telegram.com They'd stay a couple of days three-month investigation.7B ting apartment complexes
EULESS — At least once a or a week,picking or breaking throughout the country
111 month since July, two Puerto the locks of apartment doors fly back to Puerto Rico. A break in the case came
Rican men have 'flown into and stealing cash,jewelry and So far, the count is more whenn an alert assistant man
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, expensive but lightweight than 130 break-ins,police said ager at an Irving apartment
gotten a hotel room and rental electronics. Then they would Thursday, hours after the two
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Investigators believe two men flew into North Texas from Puerto
Rico,rented cars and then burglarized scores of apartments.
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Yracking the case
1 A search warrant affidavit outlines how police Mid-October:Through rental records,
caught up with three suspects in a burglary opera- police obtain Rivera's credit-card number,
tion: 'which had been used to rent other cars in
July 25:Residents report several burglaries in the area.The card was also used in August
Euless and Irving.Residents found apartment doors at the Homeplace Suites in Irving.
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unlocked or the locking mechanism broken.Cash, Tuesday:At the hotel,Euless Detective S.L.
jewelry and small electronics were missing. . , Peterson learns that Rivera checked in
July 25:An assistant manager of the Jefferson during the weekend and was scheduled to
Apartments in Irving tells police that she wroteI
check out Saturday.Peterson also learns
down the license plate number of a suspicious that Rivera had flown into D/FW,along with
rental vehicle and had talked to two suspicious Jorge Medina and a woman then known as
men.The rental car's sales ticket shows that the Lydia Rosario.Investigators are unable to
Ivehicle had been rented by Harry Rivera. • find identifying information on Medina;
Aug.13-14:About 15 apartment burglaries are Rivera has numerous dates of birth.Police
reported in north Euless.Police initially believe that were also unsure of Rosario's identification.
the burglars used a bump key,a filed-down key that Tuesday,4 p.m.:About 30 officers begin
can pick locks. - surveillance of the two men and woman.
September and October:Dozens of similar bur- Undercover officers follow the two men as
glaries are reported in Euless and Lewisville. they leave the hotel Wednesday,trailing
Oct.2:A surveillance video camera at a Lewisville them to Dallas,Murphy and Plano.Police
apartment complex where break-ins occurred see the two men break into several apart-
records an image of a car that police trace to a ments in Plano and arrest them when they
rental business at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.The return to their car.The woman is arrested
' car was rented to Harry Rivera.A second man and at the Irving hotel.
a woman were with Rivera in the car. Source Dallas County search warrant affidavit and Euless police
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police recognized the pattern,
complex noticed two suspi g. Euless Detective S.L. Peterson
cious men and Wrote downy along with Lewisville and Ir-
the license plate number ofa ° z '` ving investigators tracked
their rental car,police said. " Y down leads on.the two men, 1
Two men were arrested br.F. g y R along with rental car and cred-
Wednesday afternoon in Pla- Osorio Rivera it-card information that re-
no after police tracked them vealed the pair's preferred ho-
down to an apartment corn- • tified as Har- tel.
plex.Police said they arrested ! ry Rivera and That's when police began
the men,ages 25 and 35,after 4 .x - Jorge Medi surveillance that lasted
watching them break into sev- na,but police until Wednesday afternoon.
eral apartments. r, are not yet During that time,the men are
The two had been under certain of accused of driving around the
surveillance.for 23 hours by Medina their 'real area and burglarizing eight
about 30 area police officers.. identities. apartments in Dallas,Murphy
Another suspected member of The men were in the Plano Jail and Plano. mai
the group,a 36-year-old worn- on Thursday. At the Irving hotel, police
an, was arrested about the Police declined to corn- said they found thousands of
same time at an Irving hotel. ment on what the men did dollars worth of stolen proper-
More arrests are possible, with the stolen property be- ty apparently taken during the
police said Thursday. cause the investigation is on- previous three days.
Police identified the wom- going.
an as Carla Osorio; she re- In Euless, about 40 apart 3
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mained in the Irving Jail.In the ments were hit, police Lt. DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR.,
affidavits,.the men were iden- Wayne Pavlik said. Once area 817-685-3822 •
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