July 23, 2016
An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Facility Newport, Ore., lowers a rescue swimmer during the medevac of an injured hiker in Chitwood, July 22, 2016. The aircrew was assisting at the request of the Lincoln County Technical Rope Rescue Team, which is comprised of members from several fire departments that work together to perform technical rescues all over Lincoln County.U.S. Coast Guard video courtesy of Air Facility Newport.
NEWPORT, Ore. — A Coast Guard aircrew assisted local responders in the medevac of a logger near Chitwood, who reportedly fell 500 feet down a ravine and suffered from a collapsed lung and broken ribs, Friday.
An MH 65-Dolphin aircrew from Coast Guard Air Facility Newport hoisted the injured logger and transferred him to emergency medical services waiting at the Corvallis Municipal Airport.
For more information about the case, click here: http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2868366/
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