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BALTIMORE (Aug. 10, 2008) - The Coast Guard medevaced a man
Saturday who injured his leg while working aboard a Navy
ship in Baltimore Harbor.
Injured was Vincente
Obregon, 24.
Obregon was working aboard
the Denebola, a 946-foot Navy Fast Sealift Ship, when he was
caught between a bollard and a rope causing an injury to his
leg as the ship was being towed from Baltimore Harbor to the
Sparrows Point Shipyard.
The Coast Guard was
notified by crewmembers aboard the Denebola of the incident
at 11:10 a.m. and a rescue crew from Coast Guard Station
Curtis Bay, Md., was deployed to the scene. Additionally, a
Maryland Pilot's Association crew transported a Baltimore
County paramedic from the Seagirt Marine Terminal pier to
the victim. Once the paramedic set Obregon's leg for
transport, the Coast Guard crew was able to transfer both
the victim and the paramedic back to the pier at Seagirt
Marine Terminal for transport to the hospital by 12:20 p.m.
"This is a good example of
how well we work together in order to accomplish a mission,"
said Scott Winslow, a search and rescue coordinator at Coast
Guard Sector Baltimore. "We share a great responsibility out
here on the water, and working in tandem with the Maryland
Pilot's Association on this case really improved our
response time and our ability to get Mr. Obregon the medical
attention he needed." |
