10/16/2026
SURVIVOR STORY: Elliot Boesl 💙
For Becca and Mark Boesl and their family, Labor Day weekend 2025 was supposed to be like any other weekend at home in rural Minnesota. Instead, a routine dirt bike ride turned into a moment that would change their family forever and show them the lifesaving difference air medical transport can make.
Becca had gotten home from work early that Friday when her 10-year-old son, Elliot, asked if he and his cousin could ride their dirt bikes the short distance to the family farm to help with chores. Growing up in a rural community, dirt bikes and ATVs were often more than recreation. They were a way for kids to get where they needed to go. So, like normal, Becca said yes.
About 10 minutes later, Elliot’s cousin came back, frantic. Elliot had crashed his dirt bike, and his head was bleeding. Becca immediately drove the quarter mile down the road. When she arrived, she found Elliot where his cousin had pulled him and the dirt bike safely off the road. Fortunately, a neighbor passing by had already stopped and called 911. Looking at Elliot’s injury, Becca knew he needed a level of care that wasn’t available locally. “I knew that it was not something that could be treated locally, and I asked if they would send a helicopter,” Becca recalled. Thankfully, Life Link III was nearby.
Read Elliot's full survivor story here: https://lifelinkiii.com/elliot-boesl/
