Final report filed on cause of Wrangell’s deadly landslide
WEBMar 5, 2024 · Wrangell’s Island experienced two large landslides the night of Nov. 20. Two smaller ones happened around the same time, but experts don’t know exactly when. One of the big ones took out two...
A southeast Alaska community wrestles with a deadly landslide's …
WEBWhat appears to be a sweater is snagged on branches on debris of the site of a deadly landslide on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in Wrangell, Alaska. In some ways, life in the small southeast Alaska community is returning to normal after the November 2023 landslide, but in others, the recovery is far from complete.
Alaska state geologists’ report on fatal landslide in Wrangell …
WEBFeb 8, 2024 · Soils saturated by heavy rains unleashed the massive landslide that killed six people in the Southeast Alaska community of Wrangell in November, along with a second huge landslide that rumbled down a nearby slope, said a state report issued on Tuesday.
‘We’re always going to be surprised’: Wrangell’s tragedy …
WEBDec 18, 2023 · The Wrangell landslide happened in an instant. Somewhere high on a hillside above Zimovia Highway, the slope started moving. In a matter of seconds, a river of mud fanned out and ran for nearly...
Deadly Wrangell landslide is part of a pattern in vulnerable Alaska ...
WEBNov 29, 2023 · The sudden landslide that struck on the night of Nov. 20 during heavy rains throughout Southeast Alaska killed four members of a single family in Wrangell: parents Timothy and Beth Heller and...
Death toll from Alaska landslide hits 5 as authorities recover …
WEBDec 1, 2023 · JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of one of two people who had been missing following a deadly landslide last week in the southeast Alaska community of Wrangell. The body of Otto Florschutz, 65, was found late Thursday afternoon and recovered from the debris, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement Friday.
Wrangell, Alaska landslide: 1 girl and 2 adults found dead and …
WEBNov 22, 2023 · Three people have been found dead, including a young girl, and others are still missing after a large landslide covered a highway near a remote community in southeast Alaska on Monday,...
Search for missing people continues at site of deadly Wrangell ...
WEBNov 22, 2023 · The search continued Wednesday for one adult and two children missing in a catastrophic Wrangell landslide that killed at least three people, with state geologists beginning to look at how and...
WEBJOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Governor Mike Dunleavy has issued a state disaster declaration for the landslide that occurred in Wrangell on Nov. 20. The declaration will support ongoing emergency response, mass care, …
A southeast Alaska community wrestles with a deadly landslide's …
WEBResearchers have blamed atmospheric rivers for landslides in southeast Alaska that killed three people in Sitka in 2015 and two in Haines in 2020. After the Wrangell landslide, the state set up a ...