At 7 pm on Wednesday, a 911 call was received by the Valdez Fire Department reporting that five cannery employees from that community had hiked up the mountain behind the Valdez High School and had become unable to advance or retreat from their position. The party reported that they had crossed over the Mineral Creek […]
It was at approximately 6:15 pm on the Fourth of July that a report went in to Coast Guard Sector Anchorage advising them that the 45-foot purse seining vessel Elohim had capsized while transiting Port Valdez with four adults aboard. Another vessel, the Infinite Grace recovered the four victims of the sinking. The Infinite Grace […]