Video Available: Coast Guard medevacs ill fisherman75 miles off Lincoln City

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 07/18/2017 04:04 PM EDT

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July 18, 2017
U.S. Coast Guard 13th District PA Detachment Astoria
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Coast Guard medevacs ill fisherman75 miles off Lincoln City

An aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Sector Columbia River conducts a medical evacuation of an ill fisherman 75 miles offshore of Lincoln City, Ore., July 18, 2017.

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WARRENTON, Ore. – The Coast Guard medevaced an ill fisherman off the commercial fishing vessel Kandi Dawn 75 miles offshore of Lincoln City, Oregon, early Tuesday morning.

An aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Sector Columbia River safely hoisted the fisherman suffering from symptoms related to a heart attack and delivered the patient to the Level 1 Trauma Center at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Bend received the call for help from the captain of the fishing vessel Kandi Dawn at 1:30 a.m. and requested support from the Sector Columbia River aircrew and its long-range asset at 2 a.m.

The Jayhawk aircrew arrived on scene with the vessel and patient at 3:41 a.m. and safely hoisted and transferred the patient to OHSU for further care at 5:50 a.m.

 

 

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