The Air National Guard reports that they have a helicopter with the 210th Rescue Squadron poised at the base of Bear Glacier in the Harding Ice Fields ready to fly up to the rescue of of two stranded hikers as soon as the weather clears enough to do so. Terrain and weather are prohibiting rescue […]
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. […]
An Alaska State Trooper, on foot, was able to retrieve and lead out two hikers in the McHugh Creek area on Tuesday night, ending an approximately three hour search on Sunday night. Troopers received a call from two Anchorage residents, 29-year-old Vince Stewart and 29-year-old Suzanne Weist, reporting they were lost in the Rabbit Lake/McHugh […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued Tuesday morning three lost hikers who were suffering from possible hypothermia, 10 miles north of Palmer. According to Alaska State Troopers, they received a phone call at 11:11 p.m. Monday notifying that three hikers had become lost […]