Navy transports heart attack victim through icy conditions
Published 1:30 am Sunday, October 6, 2019
NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND — A search and rescue team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island conducted a medical evacuation of a woman who had suffered a heart attack from Forks.
The SAR crew took the unidentified 59-year-old woman from Forks Community Hospital to Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton in the early morning hours Thursday.
The SAR crew arrived at Forks Community Hospital at about 1:15 a.m. to pick up the patient, the Navy reported.
As weather conditions worsened, the SAR crew members picked their way through low ceilings and icing conditions before landing at Bremerton National Airport by 3 a.m. where they transferred the patient into an ambulance.
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island SAR has conducted 36 total missions throughout Washington state this year, including 10 searches, 15 rescues and 11 medical evacuations.
