Cold Bay News

Small towns from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to the far-flung Aleutian Islands are some of the trickiest areas to get to and aircraft is often the only means to do so.

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Lt. Cmdr. Nathan Kendrick, an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter pilot, helps Cold Bay clinic personnel get an Alaska Juris crewman off the helicopter in Cold Bay May 10, 2012.

Coast guard crews respond to an ammonia leak 80 miles north of Cold Bay. Anchorage sector watchstanders received a report about a leak shortly after 12:30 p.m. a HC-130 Hercules airplane, MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter was expected to arrive on scene around 5 p.m. Officials say about 2-5 crew members of the 49 people on ... (more)

A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew rescued two Cold Bay residents 11 miles northwest of Cold Bay Monday.

This undated file photo released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows the Izembek Wildlife Refuge, located on the Alaska Peninsula near the villages of King Cove and Cold Bay.