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[http://www.LifeguardAirlifeguardambulance.com Lifeguard Air Ambulance Website]Lifeguard Air Ambulance was established in 1982 by a small group of Physicians in Sarasota Florida. They saw a need for fast, comfortable, long distance transport for their patients traveling to specialty care centers across the country. The potential of this service was spotted by the administration of Pinellas Ambulance Service in St. Petersburg; they purchased the company in 1983 and expanded a small branch to Pensacola, Florida in 1984. In 1990, Lifeguard’s Administrator, John Roche and wife Deborah, purchased Lifeguard from Secomerica and moved the company’s headquarters from St. Petersburg to their home city of Gulf Breeze, Florida.
Lifeguard Air Ambulance saw a 56% increase in its customer base in the first year of private ownership and bought its first aircraft. Over the next 20 years, Lifeguard continued this positive growth with a small fleet of aircraft that include two King Air aircraft, two Lear Jets and a Citation Bravo Jet. April 1997 saw the opening of Lifeguard’s second air operation in Birmingham, Alabama, and today Lifeguard Air Ambulance provides quality national and international air medical transport for critical and non-critical patients via mobile intensive care units aboard fixed wing aircraft.