SEATTLE – The Coast Guard medically evacuated a 42-year-old woman Wednesday, in critical condition, from Forks to Canada.
At 8 p.m. Tuesday, Coast Guard officials in Seattle received a report of a patient at Forks Community Hospital in critical condition who required a transfer to higher care.
Multiple agencies were contacted but were unable to assist due to weather concerns, so the Coast Guard Dolphin helicopter at Air Station Port Angeles took it on.
But, because of bad weather in Seattle, the aircrew was directed to transfer the patient to a medical facility across the border in British Columbia.
At 11:45 p.m., the patient was transferred by ambulance from Forks to Air Station Port Angeles, where the aircrew flew the patient and paramedics to Victoria General Hospital in Victoria, BC.