A Personal Locator Beacon was activated and picked up by the Alaska Rescue Coordination Cewnter on Thursday at 4:06 pm. The beacon was activated at the Medfra runway approximately 31 miles northwest of Nikolai. Shortly after, troopers received another call reporting that a tree had fallen on 55-year-old Roger Seavoy, and Seavoy suffered head and neck injuries […]
An SOS message from an InReach device on the Goodpaster River near Delta Junction was received by the International Emergency Response Coordination Center at 12:03 pm on Friday. In turn, the center relayed the information to the Fairbanks-based Alaska State Troopers. According to the report, 66-year-old Gary W. Pitt of Mt Vernon, Texas, capsized while being […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft – that’s how some would describe what Pfc. Edgar Sandoval was prepared to do the drearily cloudy Alaska morning of Aug. 5. The perfectly good aircraft in question was a UH-60 Black Hawk piloted by 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Alaska Army National […]
While on patrol on the Steese Highway on New Years Day, a Fairbanks-based Alaska Wildlife Trooper got weathered in at Eagle Summit, the highest point of the highway. While at that location, the trooper was contacted by two men on a snow-machine, one of them with a serious leg injury. The trooper performed initial basic […]