{"id":75530,"date":"2021-09-18T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-medevacs-man-from-yacht-near-ketchikan-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-18T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T10:30:00","slug":"coast-guard-medevacs-man-from-yacht-near-ketchikan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/coast-guard-medevacs-man-from-yacht-near-ketchikan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard medevacs man from yacht near Ketchikan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coast Guard medevaced a 90-year-old man from a yacht near Betton Island on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sector Juneau watchstanders received a call from the 177-foot yacht Ice Bear at approximately 12:55 p.m. that a 90-year-old man was suffering stroke-like symptoms, said a Coast Guard news release.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We arrived on scene quickly and got this man to the level of care he needed thanks to our strong partnership with South Tongass Fire Department,&rdquo; said Petty Officer 3rd Class Alex Espinoza, response boat operator for the case, in the news release. &ldquo;We routinely train for situations like this and I&rsquo;m proud when our team comes together when it counts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard and South Tongass Fire Department EMTs, aboard a 45-foot response boat- medium arrived at the yacht at 1:46 p.m, transporting the man aboard a litter to shore. He was transferred to EMS at Bar Harbor at 2:05 p.m. according to the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/ice-bear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Ice Bear is reported<\/a> to be the yacht of billionaire Walter Scott Jr, who was born in 1931, according to the Suzanne &#38; Walter Scott Foundation. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 757-621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 90-year-old suffered symptoms of a stroke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":75531,"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":[634],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-75530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-canadian-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75530","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=75530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75530"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}