Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard Thirteenth District

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Media Advisory

Date: January 9, 2009
Contact: Petty Officer Shawn Eggert
206-220-7174

Video interviews from Astoria, Ore., available
This video features rescue footage from the Jan. 7, 2009 rescue of Morton, Wash. residents who were stranded due to the Pacific Northwest Floods and interviews with the Coast Guard Air Station Astoria pilots who performed the rescue. (Official Coast Guard video for release, video production by Chief Petty Officer Russ Tippets)
SEATTLE — Video interviews concerning rescues performed by flight crew members from Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Ore., are available to download at the Coast Guard's Visual Imagery website.  Included in the video is footage from the rescue of two people from their home in Morton, Wash., Tuesday.  More video of this rescue and the rescue of a group of people trapped by landslides near Morton, Wednesday, is forthcoming.

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