Alaska State Troopers and a Maritme helicopter successfully rescued two boaters that had swamped in their boat on the Koyukuk River on Wednesday. The AST-Cold Foot Post received the report of the two stranded boaters on Wednesday and a trooper with that post departed via state aircraft and was able to locate the boaters who were […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued six hunters from two 22-foot skiffs approximately four miles north of Singeak early Wednesday morning. An Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted three boaters from one skiff cut off from open water by ice. The aircrew then picked up the other three hunters from land and transported […]
Troopers in Northwest Alaska are reminding travelers to make sure that they travel with an adequate supply of fuel following a successful search and rescue operation that ended on the Kobuk River on early Wednesday morning. It was at 10:35 pm on Tuesday that the Alaska State Troopers an the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued three people in Cook Inlet on Friday morning, the three were stranded on a sandbar in the mud flats about six miles southeast of Fire Island. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center had received the call from the Anchorage Fire Department at […]