Details of the Sherman’s rescue of the Rebecca Irene.
Search & Rescue
Small pleasure craft rescued near Hoonah
It’s the second rescue this week of a pleasure craft stranded in Southeast waters.
Coast Guard rescues Wrangell man
A Coast Guard helicopter this morning (Tuesday) pulled a Wrangell man from his boat this morning as it was sinking. Forty-seven-year-old Lester Kuntz was rescued in Keku Strait, just south of Conclusion Island. The Coast Guard launched an unsuccessful search for him yesterday after he was reported missing. Spokeswoman Charley Hengen says Kuntz had been…
Body found; no foul play suspected
The body of a Juneau woman was found in a ditch Friday morning near the intersection of Valley Boulevard and Mendenhall Loop Road. Juneau police have identified her as 48-year-old Marilyn Williams, born on February 26, 1963. A witness on his way to a bus stop saw the body and called police. Capital City Fire…
NTSB investigators review recent crash data
The wreckage of a single-engine plane that crashed July 24th on Douglas Island rests in a Juneau hangar. A National Transportation Safety Board crew is piecing the aircraft together for the investigation into the accident that killed Charles Luck and his wife Liping Tang-Luck. The NTSB preliminary report indicates the plane crashed very shortly after…
Searchers find body of missing man in Herbert River
The man found dead Tuesday from an apparent fall on the Herbert Glacier Trail was a nursing supervisor at Bartlett Regional Hospital. Forty-two year old James “Steven” Reese had worked at the hospital about ten years. Bartlett Spokesman Jim Strader says he was popular with both patients and staff, and the whole hospital is shaken…