At 7:43 pm on Wednesday evening, Alaska State Troopers in St Marys were notified by the Pilot station Village Police Officer that two brothers, David Francis, 35, and Curtis Francis, 43, had departed from the village the night before and never returned. Shortly after troopers were notified, they received another call reporting that the brothers […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — During a complex medevac involving three 176th Wing Guardian Angel teams, two HC-130J Combat King II aircraft and one HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, a combat rescue officer and a pararescueman parachuted into Pilot Station, March 8, to reach a patient in critical condition. Nearing midnight, March 7, the Alaska Rescue […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — As tundra wildfires in Southwest Alaska burned closer to the villages, approximately 50 people from Mountain Village, Pilot Station, Pitkas Point and St. Mary’s were relocated to the Alaska National Guard armory in Bethel as a precaution against the fires and potential smoke inhalation, June 17 – 20. Volunteers from […]
Alaska State Troopers reported that a 59-year-old Pilot Stat6ion resident lost his life in a fatal snow machine incident on the Yukon River on Friday evening when their machine fell through the ice. Troopers in St. Mary’s received a call at approximately 7 pm on Friday notifying them that a single snow machine with two […]