One person was rescued by emergency personnel after flipping a kayak at Sitka’s Blue Lake on Saturday. Dispatchers received a call about the incident at about 5:30 p.m. Nineteen Sitka Search and Rescue and EMS personnel and three vehicles responded.
In an interview with KCAW, assistant fire chief David Johnson said that the kayaker, who is a Sitka resident, was transported to Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center by ambulance with possible hypothermia. Neither the age of the kayaker nor the severity of his injuries was disclosed.
