EASTSOUND, Wash. — A Navy helicopter crew rescued a woman who was experiencing heart failure on Orcas Island early Tuesday morning.
A Search and Rescue team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island medically evacuated a 77-year-old female patient with congestive heart failure.
They picked her up at the Orcas Island Airport at about 5:30 a.m. and flew her to St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham.
This is the fifth mission and third medevac the team has conducted so far this year.