PEORIA, Ill. — The Coast Guard has closed the Illinois River from mile marker 160 to mile marker 165 in response to a marine incident involving the motor vessel Richard Sibes and a 40-foot pleasure craft carrying seven people at 4:30 p.m. Monday.
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Busy Fourth of July for Station Tillamook Bay, Oregon
ASTORIA, Ore. – Crews of Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay, Ore., had a busy Fourth of July weekend when they ran a total of 13 search and rescue cases, assisted approximately 36 mariners, saved $424,740 in property and logged just over 24 hours of underway time in a 72-hour period.
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Coast Guard medically evacuates man from fishing vessel 100 miles west of Newport, Oregon
ASTORIA, Ore. — The Coast Guard medically evacuated a man from a fishing vessel 100 miles west of Newport, Ore., Monday.
Coast Guard searching for man overboard near Aleutian Islands
KODIAK, Alaska – The Coast Guard is searching for a man reported overboard from the commercial fishing vessel Alaska Warrior in Amukta Pass 218 miles west of Dutch Harbor Monday.
Coast Guard rescues 2 near Bay Bridge
BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard rescued two people from a disabled boat in the Chesapeake Bay near the Bay Bridge Monday afternoon.
Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles to hold Change-of-Command
LOS ANGELES — The command of Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles will be transferred from Capt. Salvatore Palmeri to Cmdr. Michael Trimpert in a ceremony to be held July 7 at 10 a.m. at the Coast Guard air station at Los Angeles International Airport.
Coast Guard responding to gasoline spill in Merrimack River
BOSTON – Coast Guard personnel are responding to a gasoline spill from a fuel tanker that over turned on I-95 north just past the Merrimack River at 9:59 a.m. today.