A Big Lake man is home safe and sound following an incident near Flat Lake on Sunday evening. At 6:46 pm on Sunday, Alaska State Troopers in Mat-Su received a call from 54-year-old Howard Harold. He reported that he got lost as he was going to his cabin and had frostbitten feet and was suffering […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medevaced a 16-year-old male Sitka Wilderness Therapy student experiencing chest pains on Duffield Peninsula, approximately 30 miles north of Sitka Sunday evening. The aircrew safely hoisted and transferred the boy from a narrow tidal flat to awaiting emergency medical services personnel in […]
In this video provided by Coast Guard Air Station Sitka, an Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk crew hoists a man who experienced chest pains from the fishing vessel Kindred Spirit in Stephens Passage near Port Snettisham. Video by Air Station Sitka. After a crewmember on a fishing vessel in Stephens Passage in southeast Alaska began suffering […]
A Tununak fisherman, while fishing off of the coast of Tununak and Toksook Bay called in to report chest pains on Saturday on his vessel’s VHF. A nearby boat responded to 57-year-old Martin Albert’s call and traveled to his vessel to find him unresponsive. Albert was taken to the regional health clinic in Toksook Bay […]