Coast Guard makes two rescues in one day

By Joe Teehan July 6, 2018 8:23 am

KGMIPetty Officer 1st Class Levi ReadPetty Officers 3rd Class Jordan Harlacher and Matthew Boyd from Station Bellingham prepare to transfer an injured woman off a sailing vessel that ran aground near Sucia Island with the help of an aviation survival technician.

7-6-2018

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — A Coast Guard boat crew from Bellingham and helicopter crews from Port Angeles made two separate rescues on Monday.

The helicopter airlifted a woman to St. Joseph Hospital after she was injured when the sailboat she was on ran aground near Sucia Island.

The boat was able to be towed to Anacortes.

A second helicopter crew from Port Angeles was dispatched after four hikers became stranded on rocks by the rising tide.

They were hoisted to safety.