Mark Coyne loved sailing, flying and Jimmy Buffett. But most of all, he loved teaching emergency medical services.
“Just a couple weeks ago, we were both talking shop about EMS,” said his friend, Todd Cole. “He said, ‘You know, I really make a difference with what I do. Teaching really means something. I’ve really affected a lot of people.’
“I said, ‘You absolutely have, Mark.’ It was one of those comments that was so true.”
Coyne, 54, was the nurse on board the Med Flight helicopter that crashed on Saturday night. He was also a full-time EMS instructor at Madison Area Technical College, where he had worked since 1987.