ST. LOUIS – The Coast Guard has established a Incident Command Post here today in preparation for the rising high-water conditions in the Missouri River.
Due to current high-water conditions in the Missouri River and the expected high-water conditions in the Upper Mississippi River, the Coast Guard is working with various federal, state and local agencies [...]
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Coast Guard prepares for high-water conditions
Coast Guard Conducts Hurricane Exercise
MIAMI – Members of the Coast Guard’s Seventh District continued exercising the district’s hurricane plan in a scheduled hurricane exercise at the Brickell Plaza Federal Building here today as they simultaneously dealt with sub-tropical storm Andrea.
Named three weeks before the recognized start of the 2007 hurricane season, Andrea added realism to the exercise scenario.
The exercise [...]
Coast Guard and North Carolina Agencies Establish Unified Command to Clean Beaches
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard has received numerous reports of Styrofoam packing materials washing up along the coastline from Cape Lookout to Oregon Inlet, N.C.
Coast Guard authorities along with various state and local agencies have established a Unified Command to plan the cleanup of Styrofoam littering 120-miles of North Carolina beaches.
Coast Guard Participates in Alaska Shield/Northern Edge Exercise
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Coast Guard is actively participating with federal, state and local partners in the 2007 Alaska Shield/ Northern Edge exercise. Alaska Shield/Northern Edge is a State of Alaska/U.S. Northern Command sponsored homeland defense/defense support of civil authorities exercise; part of the national-level Ardent Sentry/Northern Edge 2007. The exercise is an opportunity [...]
Coast Guard, DOE, local agencies respond to diesel fuel spill in Skagit County – photo available
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, the Washington Department of Ecology (DOE), Skagit County, and the La Connor Fire Department are investigating and cleaning up a diesel fuel spill in the La Conner Marina that was discovered late Tuesday evening.
The source of the spill is a 40-foot private vessel that discharged diesel fuel until the DOE [...]
Body of Missing New Hampshire Kayaker Found
PORTLAND, Maine – The body of Timothy Gutmann was located by Maine Marine Patrol approximately six miles east northeast of the Saco River entrance at 1:58 p.m. today. Coast Guard crewmembers from Station South Portland and Air Station Cape Cod secured waterside and flight search patterns and called off further search efforts following the [...]
Coast Guard Continues to Search for 4 Sailors off North Carolina
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard rescue crews from Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., and the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa continue searching for four missing sailors from the 54-foot sailing vessel Flying Colours off the North Carolina coast today.
Since Monday, Coast Guard crews have searched 38,122.5 square nautical miles.
The crew, Patrick Topping, 39, Jason Franks, 34, [...]