Bay Area agencies to hold mass rescue exercise off Bodega Bay

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...