JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with three crewmembers and one paramedic responded to a request for assistance from the Alaska State Troopers to search for two snowmachiners whom activated a distress beacon late Friday night. The Alaska State Troopers received a call from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center in response to […]
A search and rescue operation between Deering and Nome ended successfully after an approximately 12-hour search between the communities, troopers revealed in the trooper dispatch. According to the report, troopers and the Northwest Arctic Borough Search and Rescue Office were informed of an overdue traveller, identified as 34-year-old Ingram Melton, who had not shown up […]
Volunteer Search and Rescue hiked up the Gold Mint Trail into Hatcher Pass and located two stranded men during the early morning hours on Saturday after Helo-3 as well as a Park Ranger attempted and failed to reach the two men due to weather conditions. Troopers were notified of two men stranded in the pass […]
After receiving a missing person report at 9:30 AM, Nome-based Alaska State troopers initiated a search for a Nome man who did not arrive at work as scheduled this morning. 36-year-old Joseph Balderas of Nome, is believed to have been out hiking and Mountain running on Sunday and did not return back to Nome as planned. […]