JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard crews in Sitka and Ketchikan performed two medevacs from two separate vessels in Southeast Alaska Sunday. Coast Guard Station Ketchikan 47-foot Motor Life Boat crewmembers medevaced an injured mariner from a fishing vessel near Kendrick Bay and an Air Station Sitka Mh-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced an ailing passenger from a […]
Several State Trooper patrol units, including an Alaska State Trooper helicopter, and several Fairbanks Police Department patrol units were alerted, responded and actively began a search after a call went in to the AST dispatch center in Fairbanks reporting an assault and a child taken from the residence. When trooper units arrived at the residence, […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a man in Gates of the Arctic National Park, July 21. The man had been rafting down the Kobuk River, northwest of Bettles, when his raft overturned, according to Capt. John Romspert, a controller with the Alaska […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – The fifth annual Alaska State Troopers Adventure Relay across Alaska to benefit the Wish Upon The North Star charity starts in Fairbanks on July 24 and will end approximately 650 miles later in Seward on July 28. In between are 44 legs of hiking, biking, running, swimming, kayaking and river rafting to […]