Bay Area agencies to hold mass rescue exercise off Bodega Bay

Training Center Petaluma is the Coast Guard’s largest West Coast Training Center. – U.S. Coast Guard photo.
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Bay Area Federal, State and local agencies alongside industry partner Holland America Group will be holding a multi-agency mass rescue operational exercise off the Sonoma County Coast in the vicinity of Bodega Bay with a trauma/triage area at U.S. Coast Guard Training...
Coast Guard en route to assist three injured boaters hundreds of miles west of San Francisco
ALAMEDA, Calif. – The U.S. Coast Guard is en route to rescue and assist three injured persons aboard a 67-foot yacht hundreds of miles west of San Francisco.
The Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center in Alameda has diverted the Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf to assist the injured sailors. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, from Air Station San Diego, was sent to and landed aboard the Bertholf...