At 4:03 pm on Friday, troopers received an SOS from a satellite communications device and State and Wildlife Troopers immediately responded to the location where the SOS signal was initiated along the Denali Highway. When they arrived, they discovered that 70-year-old Bend, Oregon resident Glenn Cantor, had suffered fatal injuries in a snowmobile collision. A […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued an injured snowmachiner Nov. 6 near Livengood about 40 miles north of Fairbanks. The uninjured member of the two-member snowmachine party used a satellite phone to call the Alaska State Troopers. Due to severe weather, the Troopers requested assistance from the Alaska […]
According to the trooper dispatch, at 10:46 am on Saturday, Alaska Wildlife Troopers received a report of an injured snowmachiner in Hatcher Pass near mile 15 of the Palmer-Fishhook Road. AWT says the initial report indicated the snowmachiner, identified as 40-year-old Kevin Unks was with a party that had traversed two avalanche-laden areas before Unks […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a pregnant woman in distress Dec. 27 at Kipnuk about 100 miles southwest of Bethel. Alaska Air National Guard Senior Master Sgt. Evan Budd, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center superintendent, said officials of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Regional Hospital requested assistance when a pregnant […]