| Year Honored | |
|---|---|
| 2000 | |
| Honoree | |
| Brian L. Harden | |
| Agency | |
| University of Kentucky Air Medical Service | |
| Agency City | |
| Lexington | |
| Agency State | |
| Kentucky | |
| Last Call | |
| 6/14/1999 | |
| Cause of Death | |
| Medical Aviation Accident | |
| Biography | |
| "Let us Smile... let us laugh...let us cry, as we remember them," said the chaplain."He was just a heck of a guy. It's awful easy to talk good about people when something bad happens to them. But I think you could call everybody who's ever talked to Brian and you wouldn't hear a bad thing about him." Carlos Coyle, a paramedic, said of his colleague, Brian Harden, "he was a very upbeat person who liked to golf, fish, and hunt. Never in a bad mood, always, laughing, smiling," Coyle said.Brian Harden, age 31, was killed on June 14, 1999, along with three other crew members in a helicopter crash, on a tree-covered, yet rocky, mountainside. After a quiet day, the four crew members were heading for home when their helicopter ambulance slammed into a Breathitt County hillside in dense fog.Harden was an on-call paramedic for UK since 1998. He also was a flight paramedic for St. Joseph's Hospital Care Flight since 1994, and was a paramedic supervisor for Georgetown-Scott County EMS since 1992. From 1990-92, Harden was a paramedic for Madison County EMS.Brian Harden is survived by his wife, Patty, and three daughters, Kennedy, Bailey, and Brianna.Honored 2000 |
The United States Official National EMS Memorial Service
