Valdez News

A sweltering day in Valdez, Alaska when the high temperature hit 90 degrees on June 17, 2013 -- breaking their all-time record high temperature.

Nick Olstad and Lucas Murray of Emerald Alaska Inc. clean the bottom of a container offloaded from the BBC Arizona in Valdez, Alaska, June 12, 2013.

Spill response crews practiced dealing with a simulated 90,000 barrel spill during crude oil loading at the Valdez terminal, Coast Guard Lt.

Response crews finish construction of a temporary 30-foot by 100-foot decontamination and containment site on the Valdez Container Terminal pier Sunday, June 9, 2013 in Valdez, Alaska.

A foreign cargo ship with containers oozing oil from China is being held by the Coast Guard at the Port of Valdez until the leaks can be stopped and the chemical composition of the oil determined.

Throughout his two-decade-long career in the Coast Guard, Cpt. Paul Mehler III has traveled throughout the country and the world.

Anytime Jess McMillan, Sierra Quitiquit and Julia Mancuso get together to shred, it's going to be epic.