Photo by Julie B. Juszkiewicz photo
Water from the Tanana River backs up into Old Minto on Thursday, May 8, 2008. Five people were stranded at the Old Minto Family Recovery Camp. An Army MAST helicopter responded to the scene around 3:30 a.m. and the five employees, Walter Fitt, 58, Charlie Titus, Jr., 60, Greg Alexander, 40, Dana Pictou, 57, all of Fairbanks, and Donald Charlie, 50, of Nenana, waded 75 feet through waist-deep water to reach the helicopter.