Petersburg medical officials flew up two Wilderness First Aid instructors to teach locals how to help an injured person in the field. The trainees spent the first half of the day in the classroom, learning how to treat everything from burns to hypothermia. But they spent the last half testing their knowledge in a simulated outdoor emergency.
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A U.S. Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter crashed on the night of November 13th on a remote island northwest of Petersburg. There were four crew members aboard, and all survived — though two were seriously injured. They’d flown out to the island to render aid to a crabbing boat that was taking on water. But as KFSK’s Shelby Herbert reports, the people they came to rescue became their rescuers instead.
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A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed around 10:40 p.m. last night on Read Island in Farragut Bay, about 22 miles northwest of Petersburg. There were four crew members aboard, and all survived.
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Petersburg’s Catholic Church, St. Catherine of Siena, caught fire yesterday afternoon in a blaze that continued for nearly ten hours.
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Petersburg’s emergency personnel responded to a remote area on June 7th after receiving an emergency call at approximately 8 a.m. They were told that a man in his mid-50s was experiencing stroke symptoms at Blind River Rapids.
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