An Anchorage man narrowly escaped death in a car fire on Middlerock Road on Sunday afternoon as citizens and an Anchorage Police Officer freed him from the wreck in the nick of time. Officer Veenstra was the first officer on the scene after a report was called in to Anchorage Police at 4 pm on […]
Alaska State Troopers, along with the Fort Greely Fire and Rescue from the Valdez Avalanche Center, are responding to a possibly fatal avalanche report in the area of Summit Lake last night. The call came in to troopers at 7:45 pm on Monday night from a snow-machiner at that location, but because the closest assets […]
The Air National Guard reports that they have a helicopter with the 210th Rescue Squadron poised at the base of Bear Glacier in the Harding Ice Fields ready to fly up to the rescue of of two stranded hikers as soon as the weather clears enough to do so. Terrain and weather are prohibiting rescue […]
Although the Cessna 206 enroute from Wrangell to Angoon was located shortly after its emergency beacon was activated following its crash in steep terrain on Admiralty Island on Friday morning, the lone survivor of that ill-fated flight would remain without assistance several hours because weather conditions prevented a USCG MH-60 Jayhawk from getting a rescue […]