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Emergency medical technicians rush a gurney to a waiting HH-60 rescue helicopter and crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., on Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, April 21, 2010. The helicopter crew medevaced multiple survivors from the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon after an explosion and fire caused the crew of the vessel to evacuate.

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Emergency medical technicians rush a gurney to a waiting HH-60 rescue helicopter and crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., on Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, April 21, 2010. The helicopter crew medevaced multiple survivors from the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon after an explosion and fire caused the crew of the vessel to evacuate.

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