Wildlife Troopers and CES rescue hunter missing for 12 hours

Published 9:30 pm Thursday, November 24, 2022

Alaska Wildlife Troopers and Central Emergency Services personnel rescued an injured hunter Thanksgiving morning.

According to a dispatch, state troopers were notified around 6 p.m. Wednesday that the hunter — Michael Glover of Sterling — had left in the morning, but hadn’t returned even after nightfall.

Wildlife troopers, CES fire personnel and a helicopter from the Rescue Coordination Center searched for Glover in Sterling’s Swanson River area.

Glover was found with an injured ankle, unable to walk, at around 5 a.m. Firefighters extracted him from the area and took him to a Kenai Peninsula area hospital for treatment, the dispatch said.