[content id=”79272″] Searchers on the ground and in the air continue the search for 62-year-old Marites Buenafe, who went missing during a hike in Juneau on Tuesday. Buenafe, a passenger on a cruise ship that had pulled into the Juneau port, had decided on Tuesday morning to take the tram then hike along Gold Ridge […]
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a cruise ship passenger 30 miles west of Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Wednesday. An Air Station Sitka aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter arrived on scene at 11:16 p.m., hoisted the 56-year-old woman, and transported her to awaiting emergency medical services personnel in Sitka. Coast Guard watchstanders in Juneau received the initial medevac request […]
JUNEAU — The Coast Guard medevaced a man Wednesday from a cruise ship at the entrance to Gastineau Channel near Juneau. A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Juneau met the cruise ship Disney Wonder at about 9 p.m., took the ailing man aboard, and brought him to Station Juneau where he was […]
JUNEAU, Alaska – The Coast Guard medevaced a 23-year-old woman from the cruise ship American Constellation in Tracy Arm, approximately 40 nautical miles southeast of Juneau, Alaska, Monday. A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew arrived on scene at 11:30 a.m., hoisted the patient, and transported her to awaiting EMS in Juneau. […]