Despite decreased commercial air carrier services, Troopers will still get to calls for help across Alaska To most people throughout the United States, traditional law enforcement response usually involves an officer responding to a call for service in a police car. You know- a marked patrol car with the city or state name proudly […]
Alaska State Troopers divulged on Thursday that the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage has revealed the identities of the passengers in the fatal Yute Air crash 12 miles southwest of Tuntutukliak that occurred on February 6th. The flight, a Piper PA-32R Cherokee, had been traveling from Bethel to Kipnuk one hundred miles distant […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – An Arctic Dustoff crew from C Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment closed out 2019 and began the new year with a mission to assist survivors from a small plane crash. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson forwarded the request for assistance just […]
KODIAK, Alaska — Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrews demobilized the forward operating location in Kotzebue, Friday, and moved efforts to Utqiagvik. The move is due to an impact to search and rescue capabilities following a hangar door malfunction, which left helicopters unprotected from cold weather that would cause them to freeze overnight. “Our aircraft […]