A landslide in Ketchikan, Alaska killed at least one person and injured at least three, city officials said. They issued disaster declarations along with Alaska's governor.
A landslide in the city of Ketchikan in extreme southeast Alaska has killed at least one person and injured at least three, city officials said.It also prompted evacuation orders, damaged numerous homes and caused power outages, according to a statement from Borough Mayor Rodney Dial and Ketchikan Mayor Dave Kiffer. Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Dial and Dunleavy all issued disaster declarations.
A Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Response Specialist and federal Department of Transportation personnel are expected to travel to Ketchikan on Monday, Dunleavy said.'In my 65 years in Ketchikan, I have never seen a slide of this magnitude,' Kiffer said in the statement, adding that, 'With the slides we have seen across the region, there is clearly a region-wide issue that we need to try to understand with the support of our state geologist.
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