JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued three hikers from the Bomber Glacier area near Hatchers Pass, Sept. 4. One of the hikers contacted the Alaska State Troopers via cellphone after another hiker had fallen and broken his leg. “One of them climbed up […]
EAGLE RIVER, Alaska—The Alaska Air National Guard located a missing five-year-old boy on Mount Baldy Monday evening and successfully reunited him with his family. Alaska State Troopers called the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center shortly before 4 p.m. to request assistance in locating the missing child. The RCC asked for the assets of the Alaska Air National […]
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 […]
At 7 pm on Wednesday, a 911 call was received by the Valdez Fire Department reporting that five cannery employees from that community had hiked up the mountain behind the Valdez High School and had become unable to advance or retreat from their position. The party reported that they had crossed over the Mineral Creek […]