Early Friday morning at 4:42 am, the Fairbanks Fire Department was alerted to a structural fire at 725 2nd Avenue and responded to the location to find the building fully engulfed. According to the investigation, a bystander alerted the two occupants in the building and they managed to get out of the structure unharmed. “A […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The identities of the three Soldiers from 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation at Fort Wainwright killed during a helicopter crash Thursday, April 27, near Healy, Alaska, have been released. Deceased are: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Robert Eramo, 39, of Oneonta, New York. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle D. McKenna, […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Three Soldiers were killed and one injured when two AH-64 Apache helicopters from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright crashed Thursday near Healy. The helicopters were returning from a training mission when they collided in flight. Two soldiers were declared dead at the scene of the […]
FAIRBANKS – On April 14, 2023, Senior District Judge Ralph R. Beistline of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska sentenced Jason Benjamin O’Bryan, 30, of Fairbanks, Alaska, to 121 months of imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release for attempting to distribute 897 grams of methamphetamine and possession of nine firearms. […]