JUNEAU, Alaska — Coast Guard and Alaska State Trooper boat crews, as well as the crew of a good Samaritan vessel, rescued five fishermen after their vessel sunk near Black Island, Sunday. A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Ketchikan returned four of the five fisherman to Ketchikan, while the master of the vessel […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard aircrew hoisted three people stranded on a beach near Cape Resurrection, Friday. The Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, forward deployed to Cordova, transported all three people to waiting emergency medical service personnel at the Seward Airport. Coast Guard Sector Anchorage watchstanders received a call at 11:47 a.m. over […]
The United States Coast Guard report that they plucked an injured climber who took a fall while descending the Mendenhall Towers west of Glacier Trail early Friday morning. Juneau police reported at 2 am on Friday that as three climbers were descending the towers a man, identified as 23-year-old Bryson Allen of Washington, had […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued two distressed hikers with the assistance of two Alaska Mountain Rescue Group members June 17 near Mount Marathon west of Seward. AMRG is a nonprofit volunteer search and rescue organization dedicated to providing search and rescue […]