JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued three mariners after a fire started on board their 82-foot vessel north of Kodiak Island Tuesday. The Jayhawk crew hoisted the mariners from their life raft in Stevenson Entrance, approximately 60 miles north of Kodiak, and transported them safely to Kodiak. […]
During the early morning hours of Monday, a fire broke out in a home in Port Lions taking the life of a Port Lions resident and his dog, according to trooper dispatch. Just after midnight on Monday, troopers in Kodiak were notified of a structure fire in the community of Port Lions, to the west […]
DENALI PARK, Alaska:Denali National Park and Preserve rangers responded Monday to a head-on vehicle accident involving two vehicles and resulting in the deaths of both drivers. There were no passengers in either vehicle. Park rangers arrived on the scene, near milepost 236 on the George Parks Highway, and found both vehicles engulfed in flames. […]
The scene of Sunday’s roll-over of a fuel tanker on the Dalton Highway, north of Wiseman, became a fire scene on Monday morning according to trooper dispatch. According to troopers, the semi caught fire during recovery efforts to clean up the large fuel spill that occurred there Sunday. The original accident occurred at mile 188.8 […]