Alaska Reality Star Injured While Cleaning Up Storm Damage

Alaska Reality Star Injured While Cleaning Up Storm Damage
Musher Jessie Holmes takes a break from cooking his dogs a meal to nuzzle with two wheel dogs at the Ophir checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska on March 10, 2021. Zachariah Hughes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska—A reality television star and Iditarod musher was injured this week while helping clean up storm damage along Alaska’s western coast.

Jessie Holmes, who since 2015 has starred in “Life Below Zero,” a show about life in rural Alaska produced by National Geographic TV, was injured by falling debris in a building in the community of Golovin on Wednesday, the Anchorage Daily News reported. He was flown for treatment to Nome and then sent on to an Anchorage hospital.