GLOUCESTER, Mass.—U.S. Coast Guard crews have used a helicopter to pick up a fisherman who became ill on a charter boat just east of Gloucester (GLAH'-stur), Mass., and have taken him to a hospital.
The Coast Guard Sector Boston received a report about a man experiencing heart attack symptoms while he was fishing on the vessel Yankee Clipper at 10 a.m. Sunday.
A Station Gloucester boat took emergency medical service crews to the fishing vessel to help the man at 11:14 a.m. The man was hoisted to a rescue helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod shortly after.
The helicopter crew transported the man to Massachusetts General Hospital at 12:10 p.m.
The 51-year-old man is in stable condition. His name hasn't been released.
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