JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a fallen ice climber Jan. 2 at Chugach State Park near Anchorage. Alaska Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Katie Magnuson, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center search-and-rescue senior controller, said the Alaska State Troopers requested assistance from the AKRCC reporting that the climber fell […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Responding to a request for assistance last night from the Alaska State Troopers, the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued an injured hiker. Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th rescue squadrons rescued the distressed hiker who was stranded on Pioneer Peak, a mountain that […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Air National Guard rescued a distressed hiker July 26 at Mount Williwaw east of Anchorage. Alaska National Guard Master Sgt. Andre Marron, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center controller, said the stranded hiker could not safely ascend or descend and used his mobile phone to contact authorities who contacted […]
Alaska State Troopers reported on Wednesday that after receiving a request from Anchorage police for a welfare check on a distraught 27-year-old, whose vehicle was located at the McHugh Creek Trailhead, they located and retrieved the remains of Cody McFarland from a mountainside on Saturday. “Information received by AST indicated the male was contemplating […]