ASHFIELD, MA – Goshen firefighters were called mutual aid to the town of Ashfield at 0938 hours Wednesday morning to set up a landing zone.
Initial reports were that a utility worker was seriously injured when he fell from a utility pole he was working on.
A Life Star helicopter was dispatched from the Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport and was on the ground at the Ashfield Highway Department parking lot before a crew from Highland Ambulance arrived with the patient.
Once loaded, the helicopter lifted off the ground at 1038 hours and transported the patient to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield.