AFD conducts water rescue training on Cook Inlet

The Anchorage Fire Department is warning people not to try and walk from the Anchorage shore across to Fire Island.
Authorities say that too often, attempts turn deadly.
Anchorage Fireman and their partners from Ted Stevens practiced water rescues Saturday afternoon. They were working with jet skis and a boat.
AFD says in the summer, people will try to walk across Cook Inlet to Fire Island, get trapped by the rising tide and end up in the water.
It’s not the depth of the water that proves