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1985-2015. Travis County STAR (Shock Trauma Air Rescue) Flight began in 1985 as a joint program involving Travis County, the City of Austin, and Brackenridge Hospital. The first aircraft used by STAR Flight was a Bell 206B, later replaced with a Bell 206L3. STAR Flight originated primarily to conduct air medical transport, which still makes up ...
Armadillo World Headquarters (The 'Dillo or Armadillo WHQ) was an influential Texas music hall and beer garden in Austin at 525 1 ⁄ 2 Barton Springs Road – at South First Street – just south of the Colorado River and downtown Austin. The 'Dillo flourished from 1970 to 1980.
In the afternoon hours of May 27, 1997, an extremely violent and destructive tornado tore through the community of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people and injuring a further 12. The tornado caused $40.1 million (1997 USD ) in damages, and was the subject of multiple well-known photographs, earning the tornado the nickname of " the Dead Man ...
Doctors from around the world came to Austin, or watched online, as doctors at the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute at St. David’s Medical Center demonstrated a new kind of heart ablation ...
9-1-1. 9-1-1: Lone Star is an American procedural drama television series focusing on the fire, police, and ambulance departments of the fictional company 126, located in Austin, Texas. The use of "Lone Star" in the name associates it with Texas, the "Lone Star State".
The trail system is divided into two main groupings of wildlife viewing sites. The first stretches from the Coleman area, near Abilene, through Austin and San Antonio, to Laredo. The second is a cluster in the Texas Hill Country and southwest Rio Grande Valley bounded roughly by San Angelo, Del Rio, and Fredericksburg. Notes
The Texas Heart Institute. Coordinates: 29.7081°N 95.3994°W. The Texas Heart Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization that is improving cardiovascular health through trailblazing research, thought leadership, education, and patient care to forge a better future for those with cardiovascular disease—a future with an increased ...
Austin Zoo. / 30.256876; -97.935761. Austin Zoo is a non-profit rescue zoo and located in southwestern unincorporated Travis County, Texas, United States, west of Austin. The zoo is accredited by the Zoological Association of America. [4] The mission of Austin Zoo is to assist animals in need through rescue, conservation, and education.