NIAGARA, N.Y. – The Coast Guard is searching for a young girl who fell off of a rock and into the Niagara River Wednesday at approximately 1 p.m.
The 12-year-old was not wearing any type of flotation device when she fell in the river.
A Coast Guard Air Station Detroit HH-65C Dolphin helicopter, a Coast Guard Station [...]
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Coast Guard searching for 12-year-old girl in the Niagara River
Air Station Traverse City records busiest week of rescue season
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City has recorded its busiest week of this summer’s search and rescue season.
In a five-day period the Coast Guardsmen have logged more than 50 flight hours on 12 search and rescue cases resulting in four lives saved.
On Friday a single helicopter crew rescued three people [...]
Coast Guard Responding to Freighter Aground Near Miami
MIAMI – Coast Guard Sector Miami personnel are responding to a St. Vincent and Grenadines flagged cargo freighter aground at the entrance of Government Cut in Miami Wednesday.
The 279 foot cargo freighter, Atlantic Intrepid, was transiting Government Cut en route to Port of Miami around 3:30 p.m., when it reportedly suffered a steering casualty and [...]
Coast Guard Responds to San Diego Bay Fuel Spill
SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard is responding to a fuel spill along the Embarcadero in San Diego Bay. The spill occurred at approximately 09:15 a.m. this morning during a fuel transfer aboard the yacht PRINCESS MARIANA. The owner of the yacht reported the spill and the Coast Guard, California Fish and Game, [...]
Dallas Meets Up With Dallas in Gibraltar
GIBRALTAR – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Dallas and the USS Dallas, both sponsored by the Dallas, Texas, Navy League, were in port together more than 4,000 miles away in Gibraltar earlier this week.
The 378-foot high endurance Coast Guard Cutter Dallas is home ported in Charleston, S.C., and is about halfway through a four-month deployment. [...]
Good Samaritan rescues 5 from life raft near Barnegat Light, N.J.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – A Good Samaritan rescued five people from a life raft Wednesday after the boater’s 42-foot boat sank 80 nautical miles east of Barnegat Light, N.J.
The Coast Guard received a radio transmission between the crew of the Fat Cat and five people who were aboard the Made to Sea before it sank.
The [...]
Training Center Petaluma Civilian Employee Honored with National Award
PETALUMA, Calif. – A Rohnert Park woman has been named the Coast Guard’s top civilian employee of 2007. Mrs. Lena M. Gavello, an education specialist and assistant director for the Coast Guard Training Center Petaluma’s Child Development Center (CDC), received the award from the Commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen. Gavello [...]