Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard Seventeenth District
United States Coast Guard
Date: Oct. 17, 2009
Contact: (907) 321-4516
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon-Paul Rios
News Release

Coast Guard medevacs Anchorage man in Kodiak
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KODIAK, Alaska – Coast Guard and Kodiak city firefighters assist an Anchorage resident Oct. 17, 2009, after he fell down a mountain near Zacher Bay and broke his ankle. The man was on a Kodiak Island mountain approximately 2,100-feet when the Air Station Kodiak helicopter crew hoisted him and brought him to awaiting emergency medical personnel. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.    KODIAK, Alaska – Petty Officer 1st Class Scott Gordon, an aviation survival technician, and Kodiak city firefighters assist a man from an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at Air Station Kodiak Oct. 17, 2009. The Anchorage resident was medevaced after he fell down a mountain near Zacher Bay on Kodiak Island and broke his ankle. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.    KODIAK, Alaska – Petty Officer 2nd Class Randy Martin, an aviation maintenance technician, left, Petty Officer 1st Class Scott Gordon, an aviation survival technician, and Kodiak city firefighters assist a man from an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at Air Station Kodiak Oct. 17, 2009. The Anchorage resident was medevaced after he fell down a mountain near Zacher Bay and broke his ankle. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Charly Hengen.

JUNEAU, Alaska – A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak rescued a man after he fell from a cliff while hiking in the vicinity of Zachar Bay on the west side of Kodiak Island injuring his ankle Saturday. 

Mike Brown, age unknown, an Anchorage resident, fell down a cliff and reportedly suffered a compound fracture to his ankle.  Brown's friend made a call to Andrew Air who dropped the men off earlier who in turn called the Coast Guard 17th District Command Center.

The Coast Guard launched a Jayhawk helicopter crew at 2:20 p.m. arriving on scene at 3:15 p.m.  After safely hoisting Brown at 3:24 p.m. he was taken to Air Station Kodiak landing at 4:20 p.m. where local emergency medical services were waiting.

Brown was transported in stable condition to Providence Kodiak Island Medical Center for further care.

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