...The station serves as the "ears in the sky" for radio transmissions from mariners and aircraft, Petty Officer Charly Hengen said, and is responsible for relaying distress calls to the air station of the Coast Guard in Anchorage. A commanding...
...base and an adjacent school.The station listens for radio transmissions from mariners and aircraft, Petty Officer Charly Hengen said. The staff is responsible for relaying distress calls to other Coast Guard stations and offices.The station...
...after their shifts began at the station, which monitors radio traffic from ships and planes.Coast Guard spokeswoman Charly Hengen said Monday that the men's bodies were found in building T2, known as the Rigger Shop."This building is used...
...Guard says four Fairbanks men were rescued from Hinchinbrook Island after their boat took on water. Petty Officer Charly Hengen says a Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued Kary, Tony and Kody Fuller and Justin Bezona from a beach in Deer Cove...
...during a search of the ship. None of the life jackets or survival gear on board was missing. Coast Guard Petty Officer Charly Hengen said seas and winds were calm and visibility was good during the time Yom could have gone missing. The search area...
...50-foot fishing vessel that started sinking on the northwest side of Kodiak Island in Spiridon Bay. Petty Officer Charly Hengen said the Coast Guard Command Center in Anchorage got a call reporting that the Luna needed help after it struck a rock...
...the commercial fishing vessel Alaska Warrior in waters about 200 miles west of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Petty Officer Charly Hengen says the man reportedly fell overboard Monday afternoon with no survival gear or life jacket. The Alaska Warrior and...
...plan for everybody and everything is lined up. This was supposed to happen the way it did. It's good stuff." Charly Hengen is petty officer 3rd class with the U.S. Coast Guard in Kodiak. Updated information about Sickafoose Sickafoose...
...and dry goods being delivered will be distributed to families in Kotzebue and surrounding villages. Petty Officer Charly Hengen says the fillets were donated through SeaShare, a nonprofit group based in Bainbridge Island, Wash.
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