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 […]
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 […]
After receiving a report of a head-on collision involving serious injuries at 5:14 am on Sunday, Alaska State Troopers from the Prince of Wales post responded to the Boundary Road near Klawock. When troopers arrived on the scene, their investigation revealed that 18-year-old Thorne Bay resident, Jon Botello was traveling southbound on the road while […]
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 […]