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STARS launches Mission Ready podcast

Mar 16, 2022 | 11:28 AM

STARS has launched a new podcast that aims to take listeners deep inside their most harrowing and fascinating missions.

Mission Ready, presented by WBM Technologies, invites you on a journey where STARS will share dispatch recordings, hear from witnesses at the scene, speak with the crews who care for the critically ill and injured and the patients, friends and families who are so grateful for one more day.

“Often, these missions are deep and complex, so we wanted to find a way to really take people inside these emergencies and highlight how we care for critically ill and injured patients,” said Terri Strunk, chief fundraising and brand officer at STARS. “The people who come forward to share their stories do so in such a compelling way, the missions become highly personalized and poignant to the listener.”

Mission Ready features conversations with crews, including doctors, nurses and paramedics who have helped to save lives every day since the charity launched in 1985.

In its inaugural season, biologist Marcia Birkigt has been attacked by a massive cougar at a work site and is lying in the dark on a mountaintop, bleeding and in excruciating pain. The menacing cougar paces. Ground ambulance is at least two hours away and Marcia can’t wait that long. Over the six episodes, listeners hear the remarkable connection this patient has to the crew sent to help her and how they and the other people on scene cope in the aftermath.

Mission Ready is available everywhere podcasts can be found, including Apple Podcasts, Google, Amazon, and Spotify or you can follow this link at stars.ca/podcast.