KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued two stranded hunters on the Punuk Islands, east of St. Lawrence Island, 664 miles Northwest of Kodiak, Alaska, Thursday. After the aircrew’s roughly 700-mile transit, the men were taken to Nome for further care. One of the men was reported to […]
A JBER man was critically injured while on a bear hunt with a partner above Carter Lake on Friday and was transported to Anchorage via Lifemed, troopers report. The Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center received a notification via an In-Reach device at 12:08 am on Saturday morning reporting that two men were in distress. Alaska […]
The search for three passengers of an Airbus H125 helicopter that crashed three miles east of Lituya Bay on Friday while being flown from Grand Prairie, Texas to Wasilla, has been suspended USCG said in a press release on Sunday. The aircraft went down approximately 300 feet from shore near Latoya Bay. Of the four passengers […]
JUNEAU — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew responded to 11 people in the water from an overturned canoe in the vicinity of Glacier Point, nine miles south of Haines, Monday. Sector Juneau command center watchstanders received a report of an unconscious person in the water near Glacier Point and diverted […]