HONOLULU (KHON2) -- Six of the burn victims from the New Year's firework explosion in Aliamanu are on the mainland for further medical treatment. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You Multiple agencies assisted in the transport on Saturday, Jan. 4 morning. Governor Josh Green said five men and one woman were transported to the specialized burn treatment center in Arizona. HPD reports fewer fireworks arrests, citations Medical personnel from Queen's Hospital and Straub Benioff Medical Center were seen loading patients into ambulance military busses which were escorted by Honolulu Police and Emergency Medical Services ambulances towards Hickam Air Force Base. "Honolulu Emergency Medical Services will be following along in the motorcade in the event any patient's condition deteriorates and requires return to the hospital," explained Honolulu EMS Director Dr. Jim Ireland. "We don't want the busses to have to turn around with the other patients." Officials said roughly 30 military specialists with experience in air transport and aeromedical flew in from San Antonio to assist. "Because it's six patients and all six are critically ill, it's a big team, and that way, every individual patient has four or five people dedicated to them," explained Dr. Ireland. "It's a mixture, I believe, of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, technicians, to give each person personalized ICU level care for that trip to Arizona." Loved ones said some of the victims who were flown to Arizona had over 60% burns to their bodies. Health officials said the most critical patients who are fit enough to fly were sent. "So it depends on the severity of the burns, how much of the body is burned, and the age and health of the patient," explained Healthcare Association of Hawaii president Hilton Raethel. "So in terms of sending patients to the mainland, which is very unusual for us to need to send burn patients to the mainland, you would only want to send patients who can take survive the flight, who is stable enough." He said it's very traumatic flying a severely ill patient so far away. "To Arizona is about six or seven hours of flying," he said. "There's the ambulance ride to the airport, loading in the plane, the flight, and then the ambulance right at the other end and getting them set up in the hospital. It's a pretty big deal to be able to move a severely ill patient that type of distance." Straub Benioff is the only state facility with a dedicated burn unit and has four licensed burn beds. Raethel said burn care requires unique equipment and staff. Queen's Hospital can stabilize patients, but cannot care for severe burn patients long-term. Dr. Ireland and Raethel said it will be a long, costly road to recovery for the victims. Raethel added that the rule of thumb for patients with over 25% of burns to their body is one hospital day for every percent of the body that's burned. "Some of these patients had burns well over 50% of their body, or even higher, and so that means they could be in hospital for a number of months," he said. "It's not unheard of for patients with very severe burns to be in hospital for over a year, which obviously is huge consequences for that patient." "We're praying and we're hopeful no one else dies, but that may not be the case," said Dr. Ireland speaking of all the victims still being treated across the island. "We still may lose more people from this incident, so it's just a powerful reminder of what tragedy can fall on those who use these [illegal fireworks]." Check out more news from around Hawaii Both also said having this many patients severely injured from a civilian accident is unprecedented. The flight left Honolulu around 11 a.m.