Image: Alaska Air National Guard Senior Master Sgt. Jeremy Diola and Master Sgt. Cody Inman, both pararescuemen with 212th Rescue Squadron, demonstrate the gear they carried when jumping from an HC-130J Combat King II to rescue the victim of a bear mauling near Galena. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by David Bedard/Released) JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th, and 212th Rescue Squadrons, as well as Soldiers of the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, rescued a victim of a bear attack June 10 near Galena. According to Alaska Air National […]
The Coast Guard medevacs a hiker after he was mauled by a bear on Afognak Island, just north of Kodiak Island. Image USCG-Air Station Kodiak A 31-year-old hiker was medevaced by the US Coast Guard from Afognak Island north of Kodiak on Friday after he was mauled by a bear in that remote area, the […]
Authorities believe that the brown bear that attacked and killed 44-year-old Eagle River resident Michael Soltis on Monday is the same bear that attacked a searcher on Wednesday morning while that man, was out with search parties attempting to locate missing hiker last seen on Monday. The injured searcher, Paul Vasquez, was one of three searchers walking down the trail […]