Man airlifted following heart attack

ON BOARD: Life Flight crew prepare to depart with a heart-attack patient from Card Reserve in Featherston. PHOTO/ ANDREW BONALLACK

A Featherston man was airlifted to Wellington Emergency Department after suffering a suspected heart attack on Saturday morning.

Featherston Fire Brigade volunteers assisted the man at a Fox St address around 11am, before paramedics transferred him to Card Reserve to await Life Flight's Westpac Rescue helicopter.

The man's wife, who asked not to be named, said her husband had had a heart attack.

She accompanied her husband, who was in a stable condition, to Wellington.