(FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – Four Type 2 Emergency Firefighter crews will mobilize to the Lower 48 on Sunday to help with the busy fire season. The crews with 19 firefighters apiece from Fairbanks and rural villages will board a plane in Fairbanks on Sunday bound for Idaho before being assigned to wildland fires in the area. […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew medevaced a man from the cruise ship Silver Explorer 150 miles west northwest from Kotzebue, Friday. The Jayhawk aircrew hoisted a 35-year-old man from the 318-foot Silver Explorer and safely transported him to awaiting emergency medical services personnel in Kotzebue. He was then […]
KODIAK – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew medevaced a man from the fishing vessel Devotion 34 miles southwest of Cordova, Alaska, Saturday. To better facilitate the hoist, a 51-year-old man from the Devotion was transferred to a nearby tug. The Jayhawk’s aircrew safely hoisted the man and transported him to Cordova, […]
Nearly 450 attendees of Salmonfest Music Fesitval attendees celebrated with an aerial group photo in the rodeo arena at the Kenai peninsula fairgrounds in Ninilchick. They laid a 50 foot wide fabric formation around a central design of salmon leaping through a giant drop of water which was created using long stretches of cut recycled […]