JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued two lost hikers near China Poot Lake southeast of Homer, July 28. According to personnel from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the two hikers wandered off the trail while hiking in the area and became lost. […]
JUNEAU, Alaska —A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 47-year-old man near Sitka, Alaska, Sunday. The Air Station Sitka crew safely transported the man from a beach to Sitka Community Hospital. Watchstanders from the Coast Guard 17th District command center received a report from the crew of the Wilderness Adventurer, a 156-foot passenger vessel, that the man […]
Alaska State Troopers report that a LifeMed helicopter was called in to the Crow Pass Trail on Sunday evening to medevac an injured rafter after he received injuries on the Eagle River. A call went in to the troopers at 8:13 pm on Sunday by 44-year-old Michael McNeil reporting that while he and his hiking […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and aircrews from the 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment continue to conduct water bucket drops in support of wildfire suppression efforts in Alaska this week. “We’ve flown more than 36 hours, dropped 365 buckets and dispensed 254,500 gallons of water since Sunday,” […]