An Alaska State Trooper, on foot, was able to retrieve and lead out two hikers in the McHugh Creek area on Tuesday night, ending an approximately three hour search on Sunday night. Troopers received a call from two Anchorage residents, 29-year-old Vince Stewart and 29-year-old Suzanne Weist, reporting they were lost in the Rabbit Lake/McHugh […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew rescued three mariners after a fire started on board their 82-foot vessel north of Kodiak Island Tuesday. The Jayhawk crew hoisted the mariners from their life raft in Stevenson Entrance, approximately 60 miles north of Kodiak, and transported them safely to Kodiak. […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion of the 207th Aviation Regiment rescued two men Thursday night who had departed from Sleetmute Tuesday morning and were two days overdue. The men were traveling on snowmachines, and had told family the general direction they were headed, but had not prepared […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a stranded hiker near McHugh Creek, outside of Anchorage, just after midnight, early Sunday morning. The hiker had wandered off the trail and was unable to continue due to nightfall and terrain. “She was alone and had […]