FAIRBANKS – Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS) Smokejumpers will take to the sky starting Thursday, April 5 in preparation for the upcoming fire season. Training jumps will occur through April and May, primarily between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The tempo will increase May 9-11 with the addition of parachuted cargo […]
This winter a fire destroyed a public works building in Anaktuvuk Pass also destroying the electrical system that powers the runway’s lighting system. In the winter, no runway lights means no access to outside emergency medical care and medevacs during the long dark nights – a potentially dangerous situation. The fire raged in the early […]
Troopers received a notification from Delorme Inreach that a device had been activated in the Peril Strait area at 8:25 am on Sunday morning. The Coast Guard responded to the area and recovered the remains of Sitka man 49-year-old Sean Elliot in Goose Cove. An overturned boat was also recovered after it was found overturned […]
President Donald Trump has ousted his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and is replacing him with CIA director Mike Pompeo, who is set to be succeeded by deputy CIA director Gina Hapsel. A senior White House official said Tuesday Tillerson’s ouster occurred at this time because Trump wanted to “have his new team in place […]