KMXT 100.1 FM Public Radio in Kodiak, Alaska
The Coast Guard airlifted a 55-year-old woman from a cruise ship near Hinchinbrook Island on Tuesday. It was the third cruise ship medevac for Air Station Kodiak in the last week.
Sector Anchorage Command Center personnel first received a request for help at 10:13 a.m. from the cruise ship Island Princess, which reported the woman was suffering from stroke symptoms.
An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew forward deployed to Cordova took the passenger and the ship’s nurse to the Cordova airport for a wing-to-wing transfer with a Guardian Flight team, who then took the patient to Anchorage.
The 55-year-old female, reportedly suffering symptoms of a stroke, was a passenger aboard the cruise ship Island Princess. Photo courtesy U.S. Coast Guard.
