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Year Honored
2020
Honoree
Robert Cartner
Title
Flight Nurse
Agency
Medevac Alaska
Agency City
Anchorage
Agency State
Alaska
Last Call
11/29/2019
Cause of Death
Air Medical Crash
Biography
Flight Nurse Cartner died in a medical airplane accident alongside Flight Paramedic Maddox Burts and EMS Pilot Glen Morthorpe. They were en route to pick up a patient. Robert had just celebrated his 53rd birthday, according to reports from his hometown of Concord, North Carolina where he spent half of his time. Alaska suited his love for adventure and the outdoors as he spent much of his free time fishing, hunting & doing anything challenging.