STARS Air Ambulance was called to a snowmobile collision just west of Blumenort on Christmas day at 4:00pm. Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Mike Penner says the collision happen near highway 311 and one male was involved.

“There was a snowmobile accident a couple hundred yards off the Highway. It would have been in the middle of a field. Looks like the snowmobile hit an obstacle. We just assisted EMS getting the patient to the ambulance. ”

STARS Spokesperson Fatima Khawaja says the helicopter landed on a road.

“STARS helicopter landed on a highway near Blumenort with a critical care nurse and an advanced care paramedic.

Khawaja says the patient was then flown to hospital in Winnipeg.