03/03/10

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ Three people have been airlifted to
hospitals after a Coast Guard helicopter crashed this morning in
remote Utah mountains.

Wasatch County sheriff's office spokesman Sgt. Jeremy Hales says
one person is in critical condition and two others are in serious
condition. Two others sustained minor injuries and were being
brought out with the help of snowmobiles.

Coast Guard spokesman Dan Dewell says the HH-60 Jayhawk
helicopter was one of two traveling through the area en route to
home base in Elizabeth City, N.C., after performing security duty
at the Vancouver Olympic Games.

Two of the injured were taken to University Hospital at the
University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Hales said one was undergoing
surgery.

Another helicopter took a third crew member to a hospital in
Murray.

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