Coast Guard, partner agencies search for missing person near Fort Morgan, Alabama

 

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U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Heartland Contact: 8th District Public Affairs Office: 504-671-2020 After Hours: 504-330-3087 Eighth District online newsroom

Coast Guard, partner agencies search for missing person near Fort Morgan, Alabama

NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard and partner agencies are searching for a missing person near Fort Morgan, Alabama, Friday.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a report from Baldwin County 911 at approximately 1:45 p.m. of a 19-year-old male struggling in the water approximately 40-yards off the beach on the Gulf side of Fort Morgan.

Search crews include:

• Station Dauphin Island 45-foot Rescue Boat-Medium boat crew
• Coast Guard Aviation Training Center MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew
• Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew
• Coast Guard Aviation Training Center HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew
• Coast Guard Cutter Seahorse 
• Fort Morgan Fire Rescue
• Orange Beach Fire Rescue
• Gulf Shore Life Guards
• Baldwin County Sheriff's Department
  

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