Glacier County EMS paramedic Robert Gordon (left) and EMT Camas Rinehart put together advanced life support bags for their ambulances. Glacier EMS is one of the few paid services along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front that responds when volunteer agencies can't, and provides advanced life support transfers from critical access hospitals to larger facilities miles away. (Aaron Bolton/Montana Public Radio)
July 7, 2021
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DUTTON, Mont. — Vern Greyn was standing in the raised bucket of a tractor, trimming dead branches off a tree, when he lost his balance. He fell 12 feet and struck his head on the concrete patio outside his house in this small farming town on the central Montana plains.