A Kodiak woman, out in remote Saltery Cove on Kodiak Island was injured while riding ATVs in the area on Friday. Because of the remote location of the accident, the U.S. Coast Guard was called in to assist with the 50-year-old woman. The Duty Flight Surgeon recommended that the woman be flown out of the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons assisted with the transportation of a pregnant woman in labor from Nulato, Alaska, July 28. The woman was 25 weeks pregnant with twins and had gone into early labor. The urgent nature of her condition required that she […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a mariner from a cargo ship in the Gulf of Alaska 160 miles east of Kodiak Saturday. The Jayhawk crew rendezvoused with the vessel, Horizon Kodiak, safely hoisted the injured 39-year-old man, who was reportedly suffering from chemical exposure, and brought him […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard crews in Sitka and Ketchikan performed two medevacs from two separate vessels in Southeast Alaska Sunday. Coast Guard Station Ketchikan 47-foot Motor Life Boat crewmembers medevaced an injured mariner from a fishing vessel near Kendrick Bay and an Air Station Sitka Mh-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced an ailing passenger from a […]