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Coast Guard rescue mother, son from cliffs near Cape Arago, OR

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Coast Guard rescue mother, son from cliffs near Cape Arago, OR. MH-65 Dolphin Sector North Bend. MH-65 Dolphin helicopter. HH-65 Dolphin.
Archive image: an aviation survival technician, more commonly known as rescue swimmer, is hoisted into a Coast Guard Sector North Bend MH-65 Dolphin helicopter during a training evolution near Newport, Oregon, April 30, 2019. Aircrews train on a daily basis in order to be ready for search and rescue cases.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Wyatt Keller.

COOS BAY, Ore. — The Coast Guard rescue a mother and son Thursday after they had fallen from the cliffs while hiking at Cape Arago near Coos Bay.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Bend received an agency assist request from Coos County Dispatch, at 12:04 p.m. for two people who had fallen from the cliff.​ The mother reported no medical concerns, but her 18-year-old son sustained multiple head wounds and required hospitalization.

Sector North Bend watchstanders diverted an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew already in transit from Air Facility Newport and directed the launch of another aircrew from Sector North Bend.​

Coast Guard rescue mother, son from cliffs near Cape Arago, OR. MH-65 Dolphin Sector North Bend. MH-65 Dolphin helicopter. HH-65 Dolphin.
Archive image: a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station North Bend prepares to remove part of a temporary research boardwalk from Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge’s Saddle Rock near Gold Beach, Ore. Coast Guard crews from Air Station Astoria, Ore., helped the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service install the boardwalk in 2005.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Shawn.

The first helicopter crew arrived on scene at 12:25 p.m. and located the mother below the top of the cliff, clinging to vegetation. The crew safely hoisted and transported the​ mother to Sector North Bend.

The second helicopter crew arrived on scene at 1:03 p.m. and located the son 36-feet down the cliff face. A rescue swimmer deployed from the helicopter and prepared him for hoist using a rescue litter.​

The son was airlifted directly to Bay Area Hospital for treatment. EMS transferred his​ mother from Sector​ North Bend to Bay Area Hospital. Their condition is not known at this time.​

“The Coast Guard is constantly training for missions exactly like this one,» said Lt. Cmdr. Nathaniel Champlin, the senior aircraft commander at Sector North Bend. “The Advanced Helicopter Rescue School comes to the Pacific Northwest every year to maintain proficiencies in, what we call, vertical surface rescues. Pulling survivors off cliff faces is critical to the Coast Guard’s ability to save lives. We were absolutely ready for this.”

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