After losing their fishing boat and skiff, the couple had to swim to safety with their dog and parrot. “My coat started to fill with water,” Kelsey Leak said. “I was trying to get it off, and I went underwater.”
Search & Rescue
Prominent Sitka counselor and advocate dies in boating accident
Deanna Moore was a counselor and advocate at Sitkans Against Family Violence and Sitka Counseling.
Fire crews rescue man stuck to his waist in Turnagain Arm mud
A surveyor called 911 after getting stuck in the mud in Tidewater Slough. He was sinking deeper when crews arrived.
Longtime Sitka Search and Rescue volunteer found dead on Mt. Verstovia
Motti joined the organization in March of 1983 and was still an active volunteer when he died.
6 stranded snowmachiners rescued from glacier near Paxson
AN SOS message from the snowmachiners said they were out of fuel and not dressed for the weather and that one of them was going into hypothermic shock.
Juneau fisherman, 2 dogs rescued after abandoning ship
The Coast Guard credited fisherman Robert Johnson’s preparedness for his rescue.