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Fair Lifts’ Critical Role in Netflix’s “Instant Dream Home”

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Netflix’s home renovation reality series, “Instant Dream Home”, is renowned for its rapid transformations of deserving families’ homes. In the first season’s third episode, titled “A Room With A View”, Fair Lifts Helicopter Services played a critical role in the surprise renovation of a firefighter EMT’s bungalow, overcoming unique challenges and delivering excellence. Project Overview Based in Atlanta, GA, Fair …

Fair Lifts Helicopter Services Successfully Installs Emergency Generator at McCormick Building

Helicopter Lift Project: Fair Lifts Installs Emergency Generator at Boston’s McCormick Building

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As a premier provider of specialized helicopter services, Fair Lifts has once again demonstrated its expertise and commitment to excellence. Our team completed a highly complex and significant project in Boston, involving the installation of an Emergency Back Up Generator at the McCormick building, a crucial hub for Boston’s emergency services. The generator, with a total weight of 60,000 pounds, …

Multi-Ton Heavy Lift Crane Loses Balance, Smashes Into Roof

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Heavy lift crane trucks are widely used for their lifting capacity, strength, and massive build, but they’re also famous for some pretty impressive accidents that sometimes get caught on camera. One such incident happened recently in Atlanta, Georgia with expensive but fortunately non-fatal results. A massive construction crane that was mounted to a heavy transport truck simply lost its balance, …

Sikorsky Introduces first Connecticut-built Heavy-lift helicopter to the Marines

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The first-ever heavy-lift helicopter built in Connecticut has now been formally introduced by its maker, Sikorsky to the U.S. Marine Corps. The large new chopper was presented to the public in a launch celebration conducted at the Lockheed Martin company’s Connecticut facility in Stratford last week. The new CH-53K King Stallion was developed by Sikorsky with the use of “advanced …

California Jumps at High-Tech Helicopter Technology to Fight Monster Fires

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Parts of California’s normally beautiful landscape almost seem like scenes from purgatory lately. As the state battles some of the most ferocious wildfires in its long-settled history, droughts and fiercely hot summer temperatures have only made the situation worse. 2021 is far from the only year in which the most heavily populated state in the U.S. has seen enormous fires, …

Extremely Rare Heavy Lift Helicopter Makes Appearance Over Small Town

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Extremely Rare Heavy Lift Helicopter Makes Appearance Over Small Town A lucky photographer managed to spot something well outside the normal daily air traffic of birds and high-flying passenger planes this past Wednesday afternoon. It started with an unexpected but fantastically loud noise that prompted a closer look. Bird photographer Dustin Kvammen was trying to capture eagles on camera on …

Helicopter Hauls Badly Injured Hiker From Remote NY Mountain Peak

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One of the major uses for emergency helicopter services is saving injured individuals from places where any other extraction would be too slow or rough on their health. This was the case this past Saturday, Sept, 23 when a hiker who suffered a major upper leg injury found himself stranded on Algonquin Peak, the second-highest mountain in New York State. …

As California Burns, War Declared on Fires With High Tech Helicopters

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Droughts and high temperatures combined in 2021 to cook up what have been some of the most severely intense wildfire years in the state’s history. Despite this, some of California’s emergency services agencies are using technology to declare war on the flames. Just two of California’s 2021 fires have already torched away over 1 million acres of woodland in Northern …

Helicopters Used in Power Transmission Line Work in Central NY

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Since this past Monday, the New York Power Authority (NYPA) has been using helicopters to handle transmission line improvement work. The project covers power lines stretching across 50 miles of landscape in and around the towns of Cicero, Clay, Bridgeport, Chittenango, Canastota, Verona, Durhamville, Rome, Westmoreland, Whitestown, and Marcy. This aerial installation assignment is part of the NYPA’S Communications Backbone Initiative. …

NJ Motorists Rescued After Hours Trapped in Cars by Storm Ida

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Two New Jersey motorists had to be snatched from the roofs of their cars after spending hours trapped in place by the surging floodwaters of Tropical Storm Ida early this past Wednesday morning in Mercer County. According to police and rescue authorities, one of the drivers was lifted by the New Jersey State Police via helicopter after spending four hours …