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National Guard members put on hazmat suits before entering the simulation area on Monday, June 9, 2025. (Natalie Buttner / Juneau Empire)

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National Guard exercise begins simulation of foreign terrorist attacks

Operation ORCA brings 100 personnel to Juneau, disrupts traffic around Capitol

Members of the Ohio National Guard participate in the Operation ORCA exercise in June of 2023 in Wasilla. (Dana Rosso / Alaska National Guard)

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Emergency simulation uses Juneau’s landscape to prepare for national threats

Alaska National Guard ORCA Exercise may disrupt community, but increases response readiness.

Kell Morris, left wearing a brown hat, was trapped under a 700-pound boulder near Seward on Saturday, May 24, 2025. (Jason Harrington/Seward Fire Department)

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Seward man survives 3 hours pinned face down under a 700-pound boulder

Rescuers found Kell Morris with hypothermia and face first in a creek as his wife held his head…

Rescue officials are warning that the ice on Mendenhall Lake is unsafe after two people fell through near the face of the Mendenhall Glacier on Monday. (Capital City Fire/Rescue photo)

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Two people fall through ice at Mendenhall Lake, prompting late-season warning from CCFR

Two people fell through the ice on Mendenhall Lake near the face of the glacier on Monday afternoon,…

The American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, left, and on the right, the Russian island of Big Diomede, are seen from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica in the Bering Strait, on July 14, 2017. The Alaska Air National Guard on April 3, 2023, traveled nearly 660 miles to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island two miles from Russia who had severe abdominal pains, a reflection of the challenges patients face in the nation's largest state where the most remote areas have no roads and hospitals can be hundreds of miles away. (AP Photo / David Goldman)

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660-mile rescue flight highlights Alaska’s unique challenges

The rescue call came Monday morning…

A Coast Guard aircrew and a Good Samaritan vessel rescued four mariners after their boat capsized in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska, July 1, 2022. (Courtesy photo / USCG)

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Good Samaritans rescue 4 after boat capsizes

The boat sank in Glacier Bay National Park.

Coast Guardsmen aboard the cutter Liberty, recently re-homeported from Juneau to Valdez, take the vessel Nine Lives under tow after fuel contamination rendered its engine nonfunctional on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. (Courtesy photo / U.S. Coast Guard)

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Ex-Juneau cutter Liberty helps tow boat to safe harbor

Bad fuel rendered the engine nonfunctional 80 nautical miles west of Yakutat.

Two hikers, third and fourth from the right, were rescued after being stranded on Mount Roberts Wednesday evening by rapidly changing weather. (Courtesy photo / Juneau Mountain Rescue)

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2 hikers stranded by weather rescued off Mount Roberts

Juneau’s mercurial weather left them high, but not dry.

A parachute can be seen tangled between two trees Sunday near the Goldbelt Mount Roberts Tramway Nature Center. Capital City Fire/Rescue and Talon Lobaugh, owner of Everybody's Tree Service, were able to help a stuck paraglider without incident or injury. (Courtesy Photo / Talon Lobaugh)

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Tangled paraglider rescued from Mount Roberts

Tree-mendous effort Sunday evening.

Michael S. Lockett / Juneau Empire Tim Benner assists the Juneau Raptor Center as volunteers attempted to capture a trumpeter swan with an injured wing at Auke Lake on Thursday.

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‘Good morning, a swan’s escaped’: On scene with the Juneau Raptor Center

A dramatic afternoon, attempting to apprehend an elusive avian.

A beached vessel is anchored to the shoreline in Barlow Cove, about 15 miles northeast of Juneau, Alaska, Dec. 17, 2020. The crew of Coast Guard cutter Bailey Barco rescued three hunters who ended up stranded on shore after the vessel took on water. (Courtesy Photo / U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bailey Barco)

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Coast Guard rescues 3 from foundered vessel at Barlow Cove

No injuries were reported.

Coast Guard rescues man who ran aground near Sitka

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Coast Guard rescues man who ran aground near Sitka

His vessel later reportedly caught fire

Young girl taken off cruise ship for medical emergency

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Young girl taken off cruise ship for medical emergency

Local responders worked together.

Man survives 100-foot fall off Sitka cliff

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Man survives 100-foot fall off Sitka cliff

He was hiking Sisters Mountains.

Two men flown to safety from Lemon Creek glacier

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Two men flown to safety from Lemon Creek glacier

Three agencies combined to find them.

Rescuers get lost hikers down during 8-hour mountain rescue

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Rescuers get lost hikers down during 8-hour mountain rescue

It was a challenging operation.

Rescuers help person under bridge

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Rescuers help person under bridge

The person was taken to the hospital.

Juneau climber survives 30-foot fall

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Juneau climber survives 30-foot fall

He suffered serious injuries.