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According to Denali National Park spokesperson Maureen McLaughlin, park rescue personnel were able to reach the injured climber at the mountain's 19,500-foot level, but a teammate from the expedition was found dead at 18,000 feet. After the fall the team's guide secured one injured climber, who had broken their leg in the fall, in a bivy sack at a formation known as the Football Field. Meanwhile, the guide's other two clients descended separately to the mountain's high camp at 17,200 feet.

Staff Sgt. Stanley B. Reynolds, 37, was killed Aug. 14, 2007. Reynolds was on board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter that crashed during a routine post-maintenance test flight near Anbar province, Iraq. Reynolds, a native of Rock, W.Va., was an aircraft power plant repairman who served with the 1 st Battalion, 52 nd Aviation Regiment, Task Force 49 based at Fort Wainwright.

Christopher C. Johnson, 31, was killed Aug. 14, 2007. Johnson was on board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter that crashed during a routine post-maintenance test flight near Anbar province, Iraq.                            Johnson, a native of Grand Rapids, Mich., was a pilot who served with the 1 st Battalion, 52 nd Aviation Regiment, Task Force 49 based at Fort Wainwright.

The U.S. Coast Guard says five fishermen were rescued from an island south of Kodiak early Thursday morning after their 58-foot-long fishing vessel struck a rock and started taking on water. According to Coast Guard spokesperson Petty Officer 1st Class David Mosley, the crew of the Kodiak Isle contacted watchstanders just after midnight Thursday. They then donned survival suits and abandoned ship in a life raft that drifted ashore on Sitkinak Island, as the Coast Guard issued an urgent marine information broadcast and sent an MH-60 Jawhawk helicopter to the area.

Three people were rescued from an overturned canoe in the Eagle River Monday night, according to the Anchorage Fire Department and Alaska State Troopers. AFD and AST say they responded to the call for a swift water rescue around 8 o'clock Monday night, near mile 17 of the Eagle River, near the Briggs Bridge over Eagle River Loop Road. A trooper helicopter was used to help locate the three, who had managed to climb onto a log that the canoe had run into, causing the canoe to flip over.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter medevaced a crewman with a severed finger on his left hand from a container ship south of Cold Bay Friday morning. According to Coast Guard spokesperson Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally, the crew of the Antigua and Barbuda-flagged 855-foot Mare Phoenicium requested the medevac Thursday afternoon. An Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Dolphin helicopter, which was forward-deployed aboard the cutter Sherman 575 miles away from the Mare Phoenicium, flew to Cold Bay Thursday where its crew waited overnight for the vessel to enter flight range.

by The Associated Press Sunday, July 25, 2010 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A Coast Guard crew evacuated a 55-year-old man on Sunday from an oil tanker 200 miles south of Sitka. The Coast Guard says Winfred Opare reportedly suffered from chest pains while aboard the 905-foot U.S.-flagged tanker Alaskan Explorer. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter hoisted him up and flew him to Ketchikan, where he was taken to the hospital.

Alaska State Troopers say a head on crash on Knik Goose Bay Road has left two people seriously injured. Officials say two cars collided on slick streets at mile 12.5 of the Knik Goose Bay Road this afternoon and a Lifemed helicopter had to be called to the scene. Troopers say there were several people in the two cars. However, the condition of the other passengers is not known at this time. The Bureau of Highway Patrol is investigating the crash, but troopers say the roads are very slick, and sand trucks were called to the area.

Three climbers were rescued by helicopter from Mount McKinley Thursday, two of whom were unable to walk after sustaining leg injuries in an avalanche Sunday. Denali National Park officials say an A-Star B3 helicopter contracted by the park picked up Michael Pillegaard, 26, Mads Knudsen, 30, and Nicolai Bo Silver, 26, from the mountain's 17,200-foot high camp. The trio had left the camp Sunday to try and summit the mountain by an alternate route along the Autobahn, a slope leading from the high camp to Denali Pass.

Alaska State Troopers said a Kodiak Man on a hunting trip died after he fell from a cliff. According to Troopers Spokeswoman Megan Peters, 21-year-old James Monroe fell off a cliff on Kodiak Island near Halibut Bay on Friday. Troopers said he was hunting in the area. The Coast Guard took a call Friday night that a man had fallen and a helicopter found Monroe and took him to Kodiak. Monroe was pronounced dead at Kodiak Providence Medical Center.