When a bear attacked a 15 year-old participant in a 24-hour bike marathon outside Anchorage (Alas.), the next person riding down the trail was Pete Basinger–luckily. It was Basinger’s calm voice on a remarkable call with Anchorage police-fire dispatchers that described the remote, night-time location, took medical advice and gave victim Petra Davis reassurance that help was coming. But it was 23 minutes until EMS and police could find the trail head, form up armed protection from a possible bear attack and then hike in. The comm center tape of the call has now been released, and is very instructional. Basinger tried dialing 911 twice but couldn’t get through, and so dialed the race’s coordinator, who dialed 911. The recording is the call that a dispatcher made back to Basinger to obtain information. Listen to the call here, and read more about the incident here. [maps]
View a map of the bike trails in Far North Bicentennial Park and the bear attack here.
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