The U.S. Coast Guard conducted an aerial rescue operation on Montague Island, pulling a stranded fisherman from the shores in a basket on Wednesday, the USCG reports. Watchstanders with the Coast Guard Sector Anchorage received an assistance request from a fisherman who’s vessel became disabled at Montague Island, an uninhabited island favored by hunters, and is also […]
Troopers in Palmer report that there were no citation s issued in the rollover accident that closed both lanes of the Old Glenn Highway late last night. The trooper investigation into the rollover accident at mile 8.5 of the Old Glenn Highway found that 21-year-old Palmer resident Sequea Riemersma failed to negotiate a turn and […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued three people in Cook Inlet on Friday morning, the three were stranded on a sandbar in the mud flats about six miles southeast of Fire Island. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center had received the call from the Anchorage Fire Department at […]
The Homer Fire Department reported to the Alaska State Troopers that they were attempting to rescue a man stuck on the bluff in Kachemak Bay and may need additional assistance on Thursday. At 11:27 am, the fire department in Homer told troopers that they were attempting to rescue a man that they reported to have been trapped […]