{"id":62559,"date":"2020-08-09T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-medevacs-fisherman-near-sitka\/"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T23:55:18","slug":"coast-guard-medevacs-fisherman-near-sitka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-medevacs-fisherman-near-sitka\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard medevacs fisherman near Sitka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coast Guardsmen from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka rescued a fisherman experiencing a medical emergency from a vessel near Snipe Bay, south of Sitka, <a href=\"https:\/\/content.govdelivery.com\/accounts\/USDHSCG\/bulletins\/2996b68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Coast Guard announced.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The initial call came in Friday night, according to a Coast Guard news release. A 24-year-old man aboard the vessel F\/V Carol D had an infected tooth and was suffering from complications. Rough weather at sea prevented a safe transfer Friday night, but on Saturday, skies had cleared enough to launch the MH-60 Jayhawk.<\/p>\n<p><ins><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/program-allows-some-alaska-native-vietnam-vets-to-get-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Program allows some Alaska Native Vietnam vets to get land]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n<p>At approximately 7 a.m, the aircrew was hoisted off the vessel and transported to medical personnel onshore at Sitka, according to the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p>The weather at the time of the recovery was 20 knots with 2-4 nautical miles of visibility.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 757-621-1197 or lockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foul weather initially interfered with the rescue <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":62560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,366,142],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-search-and-rescue","tag-u-s-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62559","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=62559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62559"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}