Coast Guard Busy With Rescue Operations on Coast Saturday

The boys, ages 10,15, and 17, became stranded as the tide began to rise.

File photo by: Tim King

(LINCOLN CITY) - U.S. Coast Guard rescuers were busy Saturday along the north Oregon Coast. The first call came in just before 1:00 PM.

Coast Guard Group Astoria received a call from Tillamook County authorities that a child had been trapped at the base of a cliff at Cape Meares by incoming tides.

As a Tillamook County Rescue team was preparing to rappel down the cliff to recover the boy, an HH-60 helicopter crew was dispatched to the scene from Air Station Astoria.

When it arrived, it was discovered a second boy was also trapped.

The helicopter crew was able to hoist them to safety after the rescue team was unable to find a safe area to descend from the cliff.

The boys, aged 10 and 17-years-old, were left in the care of Tillamook County Rescue workers.

Authorities said the boys were shaken, but not injured in the incident.

The Coast Guard then rescued a 15-year-old boy from an offshore rock near Lincoln City just before 2:00 PM.

Coast Guard Station Depoe Bay received a call from Lincoln City dispatchers that two boys were trapped on an offshore rock near Lincoln City.

An HH-65 helicopter crew was dispatched from Air Facility Newport.

Upon arrival, it was discovered one of the two boys had managed to swim to shore.

The helicopter lifted the other boy to the beach where a crew from Lincoln City fire delivered him to Lincoln City Hospital where he was treated and released.