JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Rescue crews from the Alaska Air and Army National Guard navigated across 1,850 miles of southcentral, southwest and northeast Alaska, saving 10 people in four civil search and rescue missions and one medical evacuation mission. The first call for assistance came to the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center from Alaska State […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons assisted the National Park Service in their rescue of a fallen climber at Denali May 20. According to an NPS press release, Denali National Park and Preserve Rangers located the climber who fell from a 16,000-foot ridge on the West Buttress […]
Two 15-year-olds on a snowmachine called in to MATCOM dispatch at 10:44 pm on Friday night and requested help as they had driven their machine into a pond in a remote area and could not get out. The teens in distress reported via cell phone that they were approximately three miles away from the nearest […]
KODIAK, Alaska – A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka aircrew medically evacuated a 24-year-old crewmember from a Canadian vessel located northwest of Graham Island in British Columbia on Friday. The MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew arrived on scene at 7:58 p.m. and safely hoisted and transported the patient to shore in Masset, a village in British […]