HONOLULU — Rescue crews with the U.S. Coast Guard, Honolulu Fire Department and City & County of Honolulu Ocean Safety Division partnered for a seamless and extremely successful inter-agency rescue today off Diamond Head.
Coast Guard crews aboard a C-130 search plane, HH-65 Dolphin helicopter and 47-foot motor lifeboat teamed with HFD crews aboard the HFD [...]
Posts on ‘March 15th, 2008’
Coast Guard Teams with Honolulu Fire Department for Catamaran Rescue
Coast Guard Works to Promote Safe Sitka Herring Fishery
Juneau, Alaska — The Coast Guard will offer courtesy dockside examinations of commercial fishing vessels in Sitka in anticipation of the 2008 Sitka Sound Herring Sac Roe fishery, which is slated to begin next week.
Fishermen can sign up for an exam starting Sunday, March 17, by calling Sitka Marine Safety Detachment Supervisor, Chief Warrant Officer [...]
Coast Guard airlifts injured logger
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard airlifted a logger who sustained injuries while clearing a tree approximately 15 miles southeast of Newport Beach, Ore.,Wednesday.
Coast Guard Group North Bend received a request for assistance from the Yachats Fire Department in Yachats, Ore., for an injured logger in the Siuslaw National Forest in Ore.
A Coast Guard HH-65C Dolphin [...]
Coast Guard and Bay Area Partners Ensure Safety of San Francisco Bay Protesters
RICHMOND, Calif.- The Coast Guard, along with boat units from Contra Costa county, Alameda county, California Highway Patrol, and Richmond Police Department, kept careful watch over peaceful anti-war protesters on the water in the vicinity of Richmond’s Chevron dock today. As vessels arrived to support the protest, Coast Guard personnel reached out to kayakers and [...]
Coast Guard suspends search for 57-year-old man in Neches River
HOUSTON – After a two-day effort, the Coast Guard has suspended its active search today at 2:06 p.m. for William Foster, the 56-year-old man who went missing in the Neches River, Texas, Wednesday evening.
Coast Guard crews searched more than 468 square miles, including overlapping searches, along the Sabine and Neches waterways. The Coast Guard [...]