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Search Continues for Missing Benbow Girls
Searchers are gathering in Benbow this morning to continue to look for Leia and Caroline Carrico, two girls missing in the woods near Benbow. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office has sent a crew with a search dog to aid the effort, according to the the girls’ mother, Misty Carrico. The two girls, Caroline Rose, 5, […]
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Rescue Operation Underway in Flooded Eel River
There is a rescue operation underway in the floodwaters of the Eel River, where a rescue boat has responded to reports of multiple people on a tractor, according to scanner traffic and reports from people at the scene. The incident was first reported at 7:45 p.m. and, at 8:25 p.m., a responding officer reported being […]
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Off-Duty Civilian Coastie Rescues Surfer
An off-duty Coast Guard civilian employee helped rescue a surfer who’d lost his surfboard and was in distress this morning. According to a press release, Steven Bluntzer, a Sector Humboldt Bay civilian search and rescue controller who also happens to surf, saw an individual in distress, instructed bystanders to call 911 and headed in to […]
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Rescuers Face ‘Treacherous Terrain’ in Recovery Effort at Wedding Rock
The effort to recover the body of a 33-year-old Arcata woman who went missing Sunday night near Wedding Rock in Patrick’s Point State Park took most of Monday and included dozens of people. “Ground search crews and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter began searching for the hiker again on January 14 at 8 a.m.,” the […]
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Coasties Rescue Stranded Hiker Near Klamath River (Video)
A crew from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay rescued a stranded hiker near the mouth of the Klamath River on Sunday. The hiker had contacted the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office at about 2:30 p.m. to report he’d become stranded at the bottom of a 300-foot cliff near the mouth of the Klamath River […]
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Coast Guard Rescues Another Boat Today (With Video)
Yet another crab fishing vessel with two onboard was escorted back to port today, the fourth Coast Guard rescue mission in as many days. The call came in around 10:30 a.m. and the Comet was back at Woodley Island by 1:30 p.m. after a prop failed. No injuries were reported. On Monday, the Coast Guard […]
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Coast Guard Responds to Three Rescues in Three Days
For the third time in three days, the Coast Guard was dispatched to help local fishermen in distress. In the latest rescue, a lifeboat crew was sent around 1 p.m. Monday to assist four Dungeness crab fishermen aboard the 58-foot Lori Ann, which had become disabled amid heavy fog. After putting the vessel in a […]
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Garberville Man Drowns in South Jetty Boating Accident
A 66-year-old Garberville man drowned Thursday after a 19-foot boat wrecked on the rocks of the South Jetty, sending four people into the water. The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office identified the deceased man as Gary Floyd Abena, and its press release notes the other three boaters were treated for minor injuries and hypothermia. According to […]
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Dramatic Rescue on the Lost Coast Trail
Emergency crews from almost a dozen agencies worked through Saturday night and into Sunday morning to rescue a hiker from a remote area of the Lost Coast Trail, near Shelter Cove. The crews battled an incoming tide, darkness and heavy fog to get the hiker — who’d been critically injured in a fall — to […]
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Ocean Swimmer Dies
A 21-year-old from Tulare died yesterday afternoon after being rescued from the ocean off of Samoa Beach, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. Matthew Bryant Garcia had gone swimming with a friend, and disappeared in the surf, says the release. A passerby called 911 at about 4:30 p.m. In two minutes rescuers were on […]
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Updated With Video: Coast Guard Chopper Rescues Sinking Fishermen
Update: The Coast Guard sent us this overhead video of the rescue, showing the helicopter crew lower a basket and pull the fishermen to safety. All that training pays off. Coasties pulled two men from a sinking fishing boat Friday, 35 miles off the coast of Punta Gorda. A rescue swimmer hoisted the crew of […]