At approximately 6:30 pm on Friday, a call went in to the troopers from a woman frantic over a missing child. The woman told troopers that her child went missing from below the Seward Highway at Glacier Creek. A Girdwood Trooper responded to the scene one minute later. The woman told the trooper that she […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced a 70-year-old man with an eye injury from Noyes Island approximately 34 miles from Klawock Tuesday. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka transported the man to awaiting medical personnel in Sitka. Sector Juneau command center personnel received the request for medevac from the crew of […]
A report went in to the Coast Guard 17thh District Command Center on Tuesday reporting a crewmember aboard the F/V Optimus had suffered a severe laceration from a fishing hook while fishing in the Gulf of Alaska. Because of the severity of the wound, the Command Center immediately ordered the launch of a MH-60 Jayhawk […]
KODIAK, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 68-year-old man who fell ill aboard the 35-foot fishing vessel Northern Star docked in Point Baker on Prince of Wales Island, Thursday. The Jayhawk crew landed on a nearby beach and brought the man aboard where he was transported to Sitka […]