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...turbulence and limited visibility forced the crew to return to base, the Coast Guard said.The Coast Guard called Sitka Mountain Rescue to help out, said Kluting, SMR director. Kluting was joined by other members Orbison and Gangle to head to Nakwasina...
...helicopter crew from Air Station Sitka located the man aboard his 32-foot fishing vessel, Saltshaker, and guided a Sitka Mountain Rescue boat crew to the location to provide assistance, Petty Officer First Class Sara Francis said in a release.The...
...from the ridge and taken to Sitka by 3:30 p.m.Alaska State Troopers coordinated the effort, and also had Sitka Mountain Rescue volunteers ready to conduct a ground rescue if the hoist wasn't possible.
...the sea and shoreline between Sitka and Sevenfathom Bay, the destination of the hunters, and worked with the Sitka Mountain Rescue to coordinate a local investigation for the missing men, the release stated.Sector Juneau Lt. j.g. James...
...in the search and rescue mission by sending a helicopter to search by air, while volunteer rescue squads, the Sitka Mountain Rescue team and Port Protection citizens searched on the ground.Air Station Sitka sent an MH-60 Jayhawk Helicopter...
...Bruce Botelho, Senator Dennis Egan, Representative Cathy Munoz, Juneau Mountain Rescue, Civil Air Patrol, Sitka Mountain Rescue, SEADOGS, Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue, Alaska State Troopers, Customs and Border Protection and Ken Kaelsch...
...worried that MacFerrin was injured or in trouble of some kind, and notified local search and rescue agencies. Sitka Mountain Rescue and the U.S. Coast Guard started a search, and found MacFerrin at Nakwasina Passage, about a day away from...
...Station Sitka rescue helicopter crew transported a Sitka Mountain Rescue team to Mount Bassie at 7:05 this morning. The...this morning when weather conditions improved. The Sitka Mountain Rescue team planned to escort the remaining hikers down...
...rescuers found the two men about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday near Indian River, a mile southeast of Sitka. Members of Sitka Mountain Rescue asked the Coast Guard for help in locating the two hunters. Rescuers found the two, who were uninjured, by communicating...
...picked up by helicopter.'' About 9:30 p.m. Thursday, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter took a team of three Sitka mountain rescue personnel to the site. The trio was set down on the unnamed glacier about an hour later and camped with the hikers...