More Coast Guard and Katrina

ALEXANDRIA, La. (Aug. 29, 2005) - A Coast Guard disaster assistance response team from St. Louis begins unloading relief and response supplies from a Coast Guard C-130 aircraft at Alexandria International Airport here today.
U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Larry Chambers


MOBILE, Ala. (Aug. 29, 2005) - Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin R. Feussner, 33, of Daphne, Ala., writes down the locations of stranded individuals in need of assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina today at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile. With electrical power out, Feussner communicates with the Alabama Emergency Operations Center in order to coordinate search and rescue operations on his cell phone.
U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class NyxoLyno Cangemi


NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29, 2005) - Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Huerta prepares to hoist two children into a Coast Guard rescue helicopter here today. Huerta, 34, of Tampa, Fla., is an aviation maintenance technician stationed at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala.
U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Niemi



MOBILE, Ala. (Sept. 1, 2005) - A Coast Guard helicopter rescue crew and paramedics from the Mobile area assist a woman onto a gurney at the Coast Guard base here today. Critically ill patients from a Biloxi National Guard field hospital were transported to the Coast Guard base and transferred to local EMS.
U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class NyxoLyno Cangemi


NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 02, 2005) - The rescue crew of an HH-65C helicopter from Coast Guard Airstation Atlantic City, N.J., airlifted a woman in labor to safety. The pregnant woman gave birth within minutes of landing at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.


MOBILE, Ala. (Sept. 3, 2005) - Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Craig A. Miller, 40, of Ocean City, N.J., signs an axe today at the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center here.
Rescue swimmers used axes during rooftop rescues to save trapped victims.
The aircrews signed the axe as a symbol of the unorthodox methods they have used to rescue hurricane victims and will display the axe at the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in memory of those they rescued.
U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class NyxoLyno Cangemi

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