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Date: Aug. 24, 2004
Contact: Lt. Peter Melnick
(907) 966-5560
After 4 p.m. Alaska Standard Time, (907) 463-2000

Photo Release

 

Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter crew airlifts ailing man

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JUNEAU, Alaska - Coast Guard rescuers and others carry a 45-year-old man to a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka rescue helicopter Monday afternoon in Southeast Alaska. The rescuers transported him from Coffman Cove to Ketchikan for treatment of a possible heart attack. (Official U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy Air Station Sitka)
JUNEAU, Alaska - Coast Guard rescuers and others carry a 45-year-old man to a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka rescue helicopter Monday afternoon in Southeast Alaska. The rescuers transported him from Coffman Cove to Ketchikan for treatment of a possible heart attack. (Official U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy Air Station Sitka)

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