A U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter crew airlifted a 52-year-old male Kalaupapa Park employee from Moloka'i to O'ahu Thursday at about 9:15 p.m.

The Coast Guard Joint Rescue Coordination Center watchstanders received a call from a Hawaii State Department of Health doctor about a man who was experiencing chest pains at approximately 7 p.m. Thursday.

A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter crew from Air Station Barbers Point was en route to Moloka'i at about 8 p.m. and transported the man to The Queens Medical Center.

The interisland rescue effort was coordinated between a Coast Guard flight surgeon, a state department doctor, National Park Service officials and JRCC watchstanders.