Here are several updates to evacuation statuses for fires in Interior Alaska. Nenana Ridge Complex: Level 3 “GO!” – Parks Highway MP 312-MP 333 is now in GO! Status – all residences within a one-mile minimum radius of the highway, including the Little Goldstream Creek area. Level 1 “READY” – Parks Highway MP 305-309 and […]
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – Soldiers assigned to Charlie Company, 1-52 General Support Aviation Battalion, recently performed their third aeromedical evacuation in a month, this time of an injured driver near the remote community of Livengood. Early on August 2, the unit received notification from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center about a request from the Alaska […]
“Such events are an all-too-common and exceptionally dangerous reality for those living within fossil fuel and petrochemical ‘sacrifice zones,’” observed one researcher. A mandatory evacuation was ordered for thousands of people living within a two-mile radius of a Marathon Petroleum refinery in Louisiana’s so-called “Cancer Alley” after a chemical leak and massive fire broke out […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew, forward-deployed to Cold Bay, medically evacuated a mariner from a vessel 220 miles south of Dutch Harbor, on Wednesday. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew hoisted the 44-year-old man from the 550-foot container ship FPMC 33 and safely transported him back to Cold Bay for a […]