The following calls were recorded as of 8 a.m. today.
March 9
At 6:03 a.m. a resident in the 600 block of Monastery Street reported seeing a man entering a tool shed on the property. Police checked the area and found no one.
At 3:48 p.m. two people were reported fighting in the middle of the street on Seward Street. Neither wanted to press charges, and neither was injured, police found.
A report of the sexual abuse of a minor was put under investigation.
A caller asked for a welfare check on a man. Police talked to the man, who was fine.
At 7:56 p.m. two callers reported seeing a flare at the Halibut Point Recreation Area. Police and the Coast Guard found people having a bonfire had shot off the flare.
Emergency Calls
Sitka Fire Department received six ambulance calls Thursday.
Coast Guard
A Coast Guard Air Station Sitka helicopter on Thursday picked up a 24-year-old man on a fishing tender near Dixon Entrance and flew him to a health care facility in nearby Canada, after he suffered from a gastrointestinal bleed, the Coast Guard said.
The Air Station received the call at 7:03 p.m. from District 17 headquarters and diverted a helicopter from a night training flight near Sitka to Dixon Entrance.
The crew member was hoisted off the Canadian tender Freeport around 9:19 p.m. and flown to the nearby Canadian port of Masset. The helicopter crew was back in Sitka by 1:41 a.m. today.
