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Alaska Air National Guard Rescue Crews Save Injured Climber

By Lt Col Candis Olmstead | MVA on Jun 25, 2018 Featured, General News, Rural

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —An Alaska Air National Guard rescue team saved the life of a climber early Sunday morning after he sustained traumatic injuries in a more than 100-foot fall around 7 p.m. Saturday. He was climbing with a team in the west side of the Neacola Mountains in Lake Clark National Park and […]

Helo-3 Rescues Hiker in Deep Snow from Devil’s Creek Trail

By Alaska Native News on May 21, 2018 Featured, General News, Southcentral

Helo-3 was dispatched on Sunday to rescue a Soldotna hiker from difficult conditions on the Devil’s Creek trail after that hiker called his father requesting assistance, troopers reported on the trooper dispatch. A call went in to the troopers at 8:58 am on Sunday from a Soldotna man reporting that his son, 31-year-old Andrew Jefferson, […]