Volunteers boost the ranks of emergency services in small towns across Alaska, and Petersburg is no exception. But the town’s EMS department has been facing a serious shortage of volunteers for years.
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A U.S. Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter crashed on the night of November 13th on a remote island northwest of Petersburg. There were four crew members aboard, and all survived — though two were seriously injured. They’d flown out to the island to render aid to a crabbing boat that was taking on water. But as KFSK’s Shelby Herbert reports, the people they came to rescue became their rescuers instead.
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