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Date: Oct. 29, 2004 Contact: (727) 423-9361 |
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COAST GUARD RESCUES WOMAN WITH BURNED EYE **video available**
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Coast Guard aircraft from Air Station Clearwater medevaced a 40-year-old woman off of the cruise ship Explorer of the Sea after she suffered a severe burn to her eye this morning.
The Coast Guard received a call at 10 p.m. last night from the Explorer of the Sea stating that passenger Connie Zullo had burned her eye with a curling iron.
A Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane and HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter were dispatched from Air Station Clearwater to meet the cruise ship 300 miles southwest of Key West.
At approximately 3:30 this morning the injured woman was hoisted by the Jayhawk helicopter crew off the bow of the Explorer of the Sea and brought to Key West Airport where she was then transferred to the HC-130. The HC-130 crew transported her to Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami for treatment. The present condition of the injured woman is not known by the Coast Guard.
Editor's note - Video footage of the hoist is available at the front gate of Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater. The hometown of Connie Zullo is not known.
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