JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th, 211th, and 212th Rescue Squadrons medevac’d a critically ill patient April 4 at Little Diomede just two miles east of the Russian island of Big Diomede. The Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER. The […]
Two 15-year-olds on a snowmachine called in to MATCOM dispatch at 10:44 pm on Friday night and requested help as they had driven their machine into a pond in a remote area and could not get out. The teens in distress reported via cell phone that they were approximately three miles away from the nearest […]
On Monday evening, troopers based in Delta Junction received an sos activation and would find that six snow machines were stranded in the mountains near the Richardson Monument near mile 200 of the Richardson Highway. When contacted, the riders reported that they were out of fuel, food and water and not dressed for the weather. […]
AST says that poor weather is hampering the search by Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, Civil Air Patrol (CAP), US Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers, and Alaska Army National Guard for an overdue aircraft that departed Valdez on Monday evening. The aircraft, a red and white Aeronca Champion aircraft with the tail number N4340C, departed Valdez […]