Officials with the Ketchikan Gateway Borough named Sean Griffin as the victim of Sunday’s slide that left piles of debris on neighborhood roads in the Southeast Alaska town.
The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce held a presentation at their Make it Monday forum discussing on how to spread public awareness and saving more lives using an AED .An orphaned black bear cub that had been frequenting a homeless camp in Mountain View for months was captured by Alaska Fish and Game officials Friday and taken to the Alaska Zoo.
A Ketchikan woman who caught the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s deadly landslide on video says it didn’t dawn on her how close the massive slide came to her parent’s house as she rushed to rescue them. Michael and Rhonda Ball live in Saxman, part of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Rhonda said her parents live about five miles away on First Avenue in Ketchikan, within a block of where the devastating landslide struck.
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