Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard Thirteenth District

Date: July 15, 2008
Contact: Petty Officer Shawn Eggert
206-819-9154 

COAST GUARD AILRLIFTS HEART ATTACK VICTIM
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ASTORIA, Ore. - The Coast Guard performed a medical evacuation of a 32-year-old man from the charter vessel D&D 30 miles west of Tillamook, Ore., today.

Coast Guard Group Air Station Astoria recieved a call at 6:55 a.m. from the D&D reporting a man aboard the vessel was possibly suffering from a heart attack.  An HH-60 helicopter crew was dispatched to the scene where they performed a hoist of the man from the vessel.

The patient was taken to Tillamook Hospital for treatment.

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