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D REP: Fight For Life

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D REP: Fight For Life

Season 2022 Episode 31 | 42m 25s | CC

On July 3 2015, a Flight for Life helicopter plummeted from the sky outside Frisco, Colorado, violently crashing in a parking lot. Dave Repsher, former Copper employee and Summit County Flight for Life nurse, climbed out of the crashed helicopter engulfed in fuel and flames. The story of Dave's journey from rugged mountain hero, to horrific burn victim, to miraculous survivor, to hero once again.

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