{"id":56348,"date":"2019-12-10T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-medevacs-teen-from-wilderness-therapy-camp\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T17:20:00","slug":"coast-guard-medevacs-teen-from-wilderness-therapy-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-medevacs-teen-from-wilderness-therapy-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard medevacs teen from wilderness therapy camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coast Guardsmen medevaced a Sitka teenager experiencing chest pain from Baranof Island on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard Sector Juneau personnel received notification Sunday afternoon from the Sitka Wilderness Therapy staff that a teenager had experienced chest pains during a hike that afternoon, according to a Coast Guard press release.<\/p>\n<p>A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk was used to rapidly locate and recover the ailing teenager, according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The aircrew was dispatched to a survival camp in Peril Strait,&rdquo; said Lt. Kyle Johnson, Coast Guard Air Station Sitka public affairs officer and co-pilot of the rescue. &ldquo;We were able to land on a rocky area between the shoreline and treeline. Members of the camp were able to pass their exact coordinates to Sector Juneau, light a signal flare and communicate with the helicopter directly with a portable VHF radio. As a result, this eliminated any searching and made entry into the unprepared landing zone very quick and uneventful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was released to Sitka EMS personnel for ongoing care, according to the release.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 757-621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/p>\n<style><\/style>\n<p><\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teenager suffered from chest pains during a hike. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":56349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75,142],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-56348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-u-s-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56348"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}