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1. What happened in the excerpt from Hatchet at the beginning of Chapter 1?

Brian was sitting in a bushplane that was flying at 7,000 feet above the northern wilderness. The pilot suffered a massive heart attack and was dead or in a coma. Brian was alone.

2. Where did Paulsen live, and what was the ambulance service like when he became a volunteer ambulance driver?

Paulsen and his wife lived in a small prairie town in the middle of farm country. The town was near the place where two highways met. The volunteer service was small, and they had only one old ambulance that was donated by a city that bought new ambulances. They were the only ambulance service available for thousands of square miles.

3. What did Paulsen say about the heart attack victims he saw during his first year as an ambulance volunteer in Chapter 1?

Paulsen saw at least a dozen heart attack victims in the first year he volunteered for the ambulance service. Sadly, most of the victims were dead before he arrived. The distances they had to cover were so great that they could not get there in time to save anyone. If they arrived before someone died, it would take at least an hour for the life-flight helicopter to arrive. That was usually too late.

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