At 10 am on Thursday, Alaska State Troopers in Haines were notified of an avalanche incident. According to the caller, 29-year-old Bode Merrill of Utah “was snowboarding with a local guiding company.” According to the report, “Merrill stepped out of the helicopter and onto a cornice. The cornice broke before Merrill could grab his gear. […]
While on patrol on the Steese Highway on New Years Day, a Fairbanks-based Alaska Wildlife Trooper got weathered in at Eagle Summit, the highest point of the highway. While at that location, the trooper was contacted by two men on a snow-machine, one of them with a serious leg injury. The trooper performed initial basic […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – The first two AH-64 Apache helicopters for U.S. Army Alaska’s Aviation Task Force are set to arrive at Ladd Army Airfield here Thursday afternoon. The new helicopters will arrive inside a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy, the largest transport aircraft in the Air Force inventory. The helicopters […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Kodiak rescued two people aboard a disabled vessel near Togiak in Tvativak Bay Sunday. The helicopter crew hoisted a man and a pregnant woman from the 29-foot fishing vessel Yo Yo, homeported in Dillingham, and safely transferred them to Togiak. Watchstanders at the […]