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Alaska reality star injured while cleaning up storm damage

FILE - Fans watch musher Jessie Holmes leave the starting area at the Iditarod Sled Dog Race at Deshka Landing in Willow, Alaska, Sunday, March 7, 2021. The television star and Iditarod musher sustained injuries this week when helping clean up storm damage along the Bering Sea coast. Jessie Holmes, who since 2015 has starred in "Life Below Zero," 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, Sept. 28, 2022, the Anchorage Daily News reported. He was flown for treatment to Nome and then sent on to an Anchorage hospital. (Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool, File) FILE - 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 on March 10, 2021, in Alaska. The television star and Iditarod musher sustained injuries this week when helping clean up storm damage along the Bering Sea coast. Jessie Holmes, who since 2015 has starred in "Life Below Zero," 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, Sept. 28, 2022, the Anchorage Daily News reported. He was flown for treatment to Nome and then sent on to an Anchorage hospital. (Zachariah Hughes/Anchorage Daily News via AP, Pool, File)