ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Coast Guard rescued 18 people from a passenger vessel that ran aground near the Columbia Glacier Thursday. At 4:35 p.m., Coast Guard Sector Anchorage command center watchstanders overheard the ferry Aurora communicating with a vessel in distress. The watchstanders relayed communications through the crew of the Aurora and determined that Lu-Lu Belle, a 75-foot glacier tour boat, had run […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard conducted a rescue of two hunters 15 miles north of Chakachamna Lake near Merrill Pass, August 16, 2023, after receiving the mission request from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center. The first call for assistance came to the AKRCC from a good Samaritan aviator who spotted […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued two sheep hunters Aug. 11 near Tonsina about 165 miles east of Anchorage. The two uninjured hunters were clinging to a cliff and couldn’t self-extricate. The party used a two-way satellite communication device to send an SOS signal. The Alaska State Troopers […]
Alaska State Troopers report that they were contacted by a group of pack rafters recreating on the Little Chena River 30 miles east of Fairbanks on Sunday and notified that they had found a disoriented man and provided GPS coordinates of the man’s location. “The group reported they located a male on the riverbank who […]