Search & Rescue

The Coast Guard spotted this inflatable floating unattended in Gastineau Channel.

The girl, 12, has been able to communicate with emergency crews, and she has wriggled her fingers for them through the wreckage at the Enrique Rebsamen School, south of the capital.

The fire at 526 Seward Street, adjacent to the Terry Miller Legislative Office Building, started sometime before 5 a.m. Sunday morning.

Coast Guard helicopter and cutter crews rescued two people and three dogs Friday near Montague Island in Prince William Sound. The Coast Guard dispatched a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and the Cutter Chandeleur after a mayday call came in over VHF radio.

Five Coast Guardsmen from Air Station Sitka and eight others from elsewhere in Alaska will be working in the Texas area for the next two to three weeks.

Capital City Fire/Rescue officials say FAA grants covered most of the $2.6 million cost of remodeling the Glacier Valley Fire Station and a brand-new $740,000 ARFF truck.

CCFR Assistant Chief Tod Chambers was on duty Sunday. During the first rescue, he remarked how many fewer rescues there were this summer. When he was called out again that same day for a second rescue, he joked that he jinxed it.

Starting Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard is holding two weeks of public hearings as part of its investigation into the sinking of the F/V Destination.

Most service members were rescued, but three remain unaccounted for after their aircraft “entered the water.”