VENICE, Fla. ( WWSB ) — If you’ve been looking at the skies over Venice, you may have noticed a new addition helping save lives.

Parent company Air Methods has relocated its Bayflite Airbus EC-135 medical transport helicopter to Venice Municipal Airport . That means residents now have access to Bayflite 2, providing faster response times around the clock, 365 days a year.

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“When lives are on the line, minutes matter,” Venice officials said. “Bayflite 2 is crewed with highly qualified pilots and staffed with trauma clinicians who can render medical aid to patients while in flight to major medical facilities during that critical lifesaving window.”

The Airbus EC-135 is a twin-engine helicopter often used in civil an

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