ALAMEDA, Calif. – A fire team from Coast Guard Training Center Petaluma joined other fire departments throughout California on Friday to respond to the Summit Fires in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The team spent twenty-four hour shifts on Friday and today addressing hot spots and securing fire lines around homes that had been evacuated. Fire hazards [...]
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Coast Guard Training Center Firefighters Combat Summit Fires
Coast Guard Searching for Missing Boater Off Bahamas
MIAMI – Coast Guard crewmembers are searching for Pierre Steenburg, whose unmanned sailing vessel, Holo Ki Ki was located about 20 miles north of West End, Bahamas Sunday.
A good Samaritan boater contacted search and rescue coordinators at Coast Guard Sector Miami about 9:30 a.m. Sunday requesting permission to board an unmanned sailing vessel. Once aboard [...]
Coast Guard Investigates Oil Sheen Off Breton Island Coast
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard and other spill response groups are coordinating efforts to investigate and clean up an oil sheen found off the coast of Breton Island, yesterday.
A vessel in the vicinity of Breton Island reported the sheen to the Coast Guard at approximately 9:30 a.m. yesterday, May 24. A Coast Guard [...]
Coast Guard medevacs scuba diver
BARNEGAT, N.J. – The Coast Guard medevaced a 31-year-old woman today who was aboard a boat three miles off the coast of Barnegat.
The Coast Guard received a call at 10:54 a.m. from a crew member aboard the Dina Dee requesting medical assistance for a woman who felt sick after returning from a 75-foot scuba dive [...]
Coast Guard Cutter Legare Changes Command
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard Cmdr. D. Scott Bauby will relieve Cmdr. Andrew Tiongson as Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Cutter Legare, during a ceremony aboard the cutter at Coast Guard Integrated Support Command here Tuesday.
Since assuming command of the Legare on Aug. 2, 2006, Tiongson has led the crew through a wide variety of operational [...]
Coast Guard Intercepts Intoxicated Boater
BOSTON- The Coast Guard intercepted an intoxicated boater near the Memorial Bridge in Kittery, Maine around 7:45 p.m., Saturday.
New Hampshire Marine Patrol dispatch reported to Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor, N.H., that an apparently intoxicated boater had left Wentworth Marina and might be operating a boat under the influence.
A 25-foot boat crew from Station Portsmouth [...]