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Coast Guard crew members and emergency medical personnel transfer a patient to an ambulance from a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at the Alaska Air National Guard hangar in Juneau, Alaska, Aug. 28, 2012. The patient was medevaced from Skagway, Alaska, after suffering from cardiac and respiratory failure.

EMERGENCY AIRLIFT

Coast Guard crew members and emergency medical personnel transfer a patient to an ambulance from a Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at the Alaska Air National Guard hangar in Juneau, Alaska, Aug. 28, 2012. The patient was medevaced from Skagway, Alaska, after suffering from cardiac and respiratory failure.

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