Coast Guard rescues injured logger near Tillamook
WARRENTON, Ore. (AP) — A Coast Guard helicopter crew has plucked an injured logger from a forest and flown him to a hospital.
Video from Wednesday’s rescue east of Tillamook showed the helicopter hovering over an opening in the forest, and then the logger being hoisted on a stretcher up a cable to the helicopter.
A Yamhill County rescue team had tended to the logger on the ground. The Coast Guard said in a statement the logger was transported to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland.
The aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk was diverted from training off the coast of Tillamook to the site, 25 miles east of Tillamook.
The statement said the unidentified logger reportedly suffered a broken back and had symptoms related to hypothermia.
