A Quinhagak man who Alaska State Troopers say left his home Wednesday morning, in a possible attempt to take his own life, was found alive more than 12 hours later.
The 21-year-old man, whose departure was reported to troopers shortly after noon Wednesday, was "suicidal, wet, and walked away from his residence with no warm weather gear" at about 7:30 that morning, according to a Thursday troopers dispatch.
A search party deployed to find the man got a break at about 10 p.m. when members saw a flare along the beach roughly 8 miles from Quinhagak, a Kuskokwim Bay community of about 725 people roughly 70 miles southwest of Bethel.
Half an hour later, troopers said, searchers saw the man but were "on the opposite side of a river and separated by the tide."
After the search party navigated across the open water to reach the man, he was found to be suffering from hypothermia. He was taken to the local clinic for evaluation.