[dropcap]J[/dropcap]OINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued one distressed individual Jan. 29 at the Yetna River Roadhouse. According to Alaska Air National Guard 1st Lt. Daniel Warren, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the mission was opened in response to a request for assistance from […]
An injured hunter was plucked from the Spruce Creek Drainage by an RCC helicopter late Wednesday evening after activating his locator device, troopers report. At 9:11 pm on Wednesday, 33-year-old John Reid notified Alaska State Troopers in Seward to report that he had sustained leg injuries while out hunting south of Lowell point and was […]
The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center helicopter has accessed a crash site reported yesterday by a pilot south of Gold Creek outside Fairbanks and located the remains of two people in the wreckage. The burned aircraft has positively been identified as the aircraft owned by 45-year-old Timothy Sonnenberg and reported overdue on Friday. The duo had […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1-207 Aviation Battalion rescued three individuals shortly after 10 p.m. Sept. 3 about 20 miles northwest of St. Mary’s after their plane crashed. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER was contacted by a commercial air taxi service after the pilot of the […]