Anchorage firefighters staged a landing zone after reports of two patients in an avalanche.
ANCHORAGE , Alaska - Anchorage firefighters responded Friday afternoon to assist with an avalanche rescue near Falls Creek Trail that injured two men, according to the Anchorage Fire Department and Alaska State Troopers.
AFD said it was notified of the avalanche at 2:17 p.m. and sent five units to help stage a landing zone and remain on standby. Troopers said they received a report at 2:24 p.m. that three men had been skiing a snow chute at Falls Creek Trail when two of them were caught in an avalanche and self-extricated. Both men were injured. One patient was transported by AFD to an Anchorage hospital after being brought out of the field by the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group and an Alaska State Troopers helicopter, the fire department said. Troopers said Helo 3 responded with one member of the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group, landed at the scene and transported one of the injured men to a landing zone near Mile 106 of the Seward Highway, where he was taken by ground ambulance to a hospital in Anchorage.The fire department also praised the Alaska Mountain Rescue Group, calling its volunteers “well trained, capable, and invaluable members of our Alaska community.”Editor’s note: This is a developing storyOver 40 guns seized after SWAT standoff at Fairbanks home amid alleged union hall attack plotMurkowski warns decreasing national fuel prices could spell disaster for rural Alaska‘We must do better’: Mat-Su Borough to launch independent review after 25 dogs found dead
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