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 […]
Weather conditions continue to hamper search efforts for two boaters reported overdue early Monday afternoon in the Eek Lake area. Alaska State Troopers were advised that two boaters, 40-year-old Ronald Green of Eek and 23-year-old Alicia Sharp of Quihagak, were overdue and had not arrived Sunday night as planned. According to troopers, it was reported […]
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Station Juneau boatcrew assisted three boaters stranded on Bird Island near Juneau, Alaska, Friday. The Station Juneau boatcrew recovered all three men and raft from Bird Island and transported them to Amalaga Harbor. Coast Guard Sector Juneau watchstanders received notification from the men that they were stranded on the island […]
An elderly Dillingham couple were located successfully after a short search south of Portage Creek on the Nushagak River this weekend. Troopers report they were notified that Dillingham residents Wassillie, 85, and Lena Kapotak, 84, were overdue from a skiff trip to Portage Creek and New Stuyahok from Dillingham on Sunday. The caller, their daughter, […]