SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A U.S. Coast Guard C-130 fixed wing aircraft, from Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento, launched at 2:20 p.m. this afternoon for a medical evacuation of a 6-week-old baby girl from Reno Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nev. The baby, who is suffering from a severe liver condition, is being flown to [...]
Posts on ‘February 24th, 2008’
Hazardous Weather Advisory for Coastal Waters
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Coast Guard urges the public to avoid entering the water at area beaches through Tuesday as very large surf, up to 25 feet is expected along the central coast and up to 15 feet at southern California beaches according to the National Weather Service. The risk of being washed [...]
Coast Guard Rescues Man From Ice
OTTAWA COUNTY, Ohio — Coast Guard Station Toledo rescued a man with an ankle injury from the ice today one nautical mile of the shore of Crane Creek State Park at approximately 2:45 p.m.
A Station Toledo crew recovered the man with a compound fracture with an ice skiff and pulled him to shore.
Upon transfer to [...]
The Coast Guard Responds to a Report of a Surfer in Distress
SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a report of a surfer in distress off of Point San Pedro at 10:09 a.m. today.
An Auxiliary mobile unit, two 47-foot motor lifeboats from Station Golden Gate, and a HH-65 helicopter, from Air Station San Francisco were dispatched to respond to the surfer in distress.
Once the [...]
Coast Guard Resues Shark Victim
MIAMI – The crew of a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Miami hoisted a 50-year-old shark-bite victim about 50 miles east of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Sunday.
The 50-year-old man was diving off the 70-foot commercial diving vessel Sheerwater, homeported in Riviera Beach, Fla., Sunday morning when he was bit by a shark.
The Coast [...]
Coast Guard Locates Missing Fishermen
MOBILE, Ala. — The Coast Guard located two fishermen in the Chandeleur Sound today after they were reported overdue by the wife of one of the fishermen.
Coast Guard Station Gulfport received a call at 10:20 a.m. yesterday from the wife of Michael Wilson, 31, reporting that he and his friend, Eugene Habisreicinger, 26, had [...]
Coast Guard Leads Hawaiian Oil Spill Response
HONOLULU — Coast Guard pollution investigators are on scene near Ko Olina in response to an oil sheen that stretches from Barbers Point to the Kahe Power Plant. Coast Guard pollution investigators estimate a spill of approximately 500 gallons caused the sheen.
The Coast Guard was notified at 11:10 a.m. Saturday of a 3-mile sheen in [...]