QUINAULT — The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated a 59-year-old woman from a remote Quinault beach Wednesday.
The unidentified woman was suffering from symptoms of a heart attack on the Point Grenville beach and was taken by Coast Guard helicopter to emergency medical services at Hoquiam’s Bowerman Airport in Grays Harbor County, the Coast Guard said.
The woman’s condition was not available Thursday.
She was visiting the nearly inaccessible beach at the bottom of a bluff on the Quinault Reservation and had used a rope to climb down to the steep bluff to the beach, where the symptoms began.
At about 1 p.m., Coast Guard Sector Columbia River in Warrenton, Ore., received a request for assistance to evacuate the woman.
Coast Guard personnel aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Astoria, Ore., landed on the beach at about 2 p.m. and assisted local emergency medical services in loading the woman onto the helicopter.
A Coast Guard aviation survival technician and a rescue swimmer assisted civilian medical personnel during the flight to the airport.
