KODIAK, Alaska –A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka aircrew assisted three mariners and their two dogs after their vessel ran aground in the Gilkey River, Alaska, late Saturday night. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew located the mariners on a riverbank just north of Juneau at 8:20 a.m., Sunday, and safely transported them to emergency medical service personnel […]
Troopers report that the Anchorage man rescued from the Eddie’s Peak area on Monday remains in good condition at an Anchorage area hospital. On Monday afternoon, AST in Soldotna was contacted reporting “that an emergency signal and message had been activated by a Garmin inReach device in Turnagain Pass.” According to the report, 65-year-old Peter […]
At approximately 11 am on Friday, watchstanders at the Coast Guard Juneau Command Center were made aware that a boater had fallen overboard from his skiff in Thomas Basin in Ketchikan and could not get back into his watercraft. The boater, whose name was not disclosed, had gone into the water, and his skiff, still […]
While two Alaska Wildlife troopers were at the Swentna River Iditarod checkpoint on Tuesday they saw a young child fall through the ice and with assistance from an Iditarod volunteer the child was saved from certain death in the icy waters of the river. Trooper Knier and Trooper Gunderson observed the eight-year-old child fall into […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a fallen ice climber Jan. 2 at Chugach State Park near Anchorage. Alaska Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Katie Magnuson, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center search-and-rescue senior controller, said the Alaska State Troopers requested assistance from the AKRCC reporting that the climber fell […]
KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard rescued four boaters Friday from Yamani Islets, 27 miles south of Sitka, Alaska. A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoisted the four boaters, a 50-year-old female, and her three children ages; 21, 17, and 13 from shore after their 15-foot vessel capsized. The helicopter crew transported […]