A third day of searching for a missing pilot, identified as 55-year-old David McRae, who was en route from Lake Hood to the Lake Clark Lodge on Friday, ended without success on Sunday. McRae, the nephew of former Alaska First Lady Bella Hammond and her husband, late Governor Jay Hammond, was on his way to […]
13 people were injured and transported to medical facilities by air and ground ambulances in a two vehicle collision on the Richardson Highway on Sunday the trooper dispatch reported on Monday. The report went on to say that troopers opened an investigation into the Sunday morning crash and found that at 10:49 am, a 1994 […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued an injured hiker after he fell approximately 65 feet on Flat Top Mountain early Tuesday morning. According to Tech. Sgt. Matt Carse, a controller with the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the Alaska State Troopers requested support from […]
The Air National Guard reports that they have a helicopter with the 210th Rescue Squadron poised at the base of Bear Glacier in the Harding Ice Fields ready to fly up to the rescue of of two stranded hikers as soon as the weather clears enough to do so. Terrain and weather are prohibiting rescue […]