JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER facilitated two personnel recovery missions at remote locations across Alaska in a 24-hour period April 4 and 5. The first mission opened in response to an April 4 request from the Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome to medically […]
Alaska State Troopers report that a 48-year-old Wasilla died in a boating incident on the Talkeetna River on Tuesday afternoon. Troopers were contacted at 3:04 pm on Tuesday and they, along with AWT, LifeMed, Talkeetna First Responders, Mahay’s Jet Boat Adventures, and HELO 3. They arrived to find 48-year-old Keely Jo Latimer being administered life-saving […]
Alaska State Troopers and first responders rushed to an incident location at mile 133.5 of the Parks Highway after AST was alerted to the collision of two commercial tanker trucks at 1:30 am on Thursday morning. Upon arrival north of Trapper Creek, the driver of a fuel tanker, 67-year-old David Hope, of Talkeetna, was declared […]
Alaska State Troopers say that a search initiated on Sunday afternoon for a Bethel man in the Talkeetna area is ongoing with no results as of yet. Troopers were notified that 55-year-old Alexander Guest left his residence at approximately 2:30 pm on Saturday afternoon to go looking for Chaga mushrooms in the woods near […]