US Border Agents perform hoist rescue mission
USCBP hoist rescue By Shelby Trahan | January 26, 2021 at 9:40 AM MST - Updated January 27 at 10:27 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Several agencies came together to rescue an injured migrant in a remote location in the Baboquivari Wilderness Peak area on Friday, Jan. 22.
The hoisted rescue mission was performed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents, and U.S. Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR).
According to a news release, Arizona Air Coordination Center was informed of a migrant lost in the mountains. Around 4 p.m., an AMO Black Hawk crew from the Tucson Air Branch with members of the Tucson Sector BORSTAR team aboard responded to the coordinates provided.
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U.S Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents conducted a remote air rescue of two illegal aliens in the Baboquivari Wilderness Peak area on Tuesday. Footage of the rescue shows AMO agents, along with a U.S. Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR) EMT, hoisting the two illegal aliens to safety.
The crew of a Tucson Air Branch UH-60 responded to a 9-11 call of an injured woman who fell some 10 feet from a cliff in the Baboquivari Wilderness Peak area near Tucson, Arizona. The woman was bleeding from her head and suffered numerous abrasions.
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A Tucson Air Branch UH-50 Black Hawk aircrew responded to a 911 call from a woman who said she became injured after falling in a canyon in the Baboquivari Wilderness Peak area. The woman, a migrant who entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico, fell from a 10-foot cliff, according to information obtained from U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
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An illegal immigrant fell from a 10-foot cliff and was bleeding from her head when officials found her and another illegal immigrant near Tucson, Arizona on Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday.
The two illegal immigrants were rescued from a remote portion of the Baboquivari Wilderness Peak area by a Black Hawk crew after a 911 call was made reporting an injured woman, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Officials rescued a man and a woman who has sustained several abrasions and was bleeding from the head.
“Our aircrews are the best at what they do,” Deputy Director of the Tucson Air Branch Hunter Robinson said in a statement. “They are able to quickly shift from their law enforcement capacity to a search and rescue function, reaching these individuals, saving their lives.”