Alaska State Troopers report that they received notification of an avalanche with injuries just after 9 pm on Wednesday night. The call, coming from three sheep hunters, reported that they were in the Hunter Creek Valley on a sheep hunt when they got caught in an avalanche. Two of the hunters sustained injuries in the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska— Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued two hikers from Copper Mountain in the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Aug. 31. According to the National Park Service, its Alaska Region Communication Center received a distress call around 7:30 p.m. reporting that a hiker […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a 54-year old man near Jensen Mine, 30 miles south of Delta Junction, Sunday morning around 3:00 a.m. The man suffered injuries from a four-wheeler accident that occurred after he experienced symptoms of a stroke. He is part […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons assisted with the transportation of a pregnant woman in labor from Nulato, Alaska, July 28. The woman was 25 weeks pregnant with twins and had gone into early labor. The urgent nature of her condition required that she […]