ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard is encouraging boaters in Alaska to educate themselves about emergency position indicating radio beacons, and to understand the negative consequences for failing to do so. An EPIRB is a device that transmits a distress signal that reaches the Coast Guard and other emergency responders. The Coast Guard is urging […]
A U.S. Coast Guard MHH-60 Jayhawk helicopter stationed in Sitka traveled to the Chilkat River near mile 10 and plucked seven from a sandbar during the early morning hours on Sunday after they were called in by the Alaska State Troopers, AST reported on Sunday. Troopers received notification at 9:45 pm on Saturday night that […]
AST’s Helo-3 diverted while on the return leg of a rescue mission that grabbed three from Lake Creek and plucked two additional stranded campers from the mouth of the Eska Creek on Monday evening, the trooper dispatch reported on Tuesday morning. At 4:35 pm on Monday, Helo-3 was launched after receiving a report of a […]
Coast Guard Air Station-Kodiak launched an HC-130 Hercules and a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to Wales on Sunday in response to two boaters in distress and missing near the community. Coast Guard District 17 Watchstanders received information that at 2:30 am on Sunday, two boaters, 21-year-old Timothy Miligrock and 14-year-old Damian Soolook, were in distress and […]