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The Coast Guard and the Alaska National Guard were conducting search-and-rescue operations in two villages along the Bering Sea on Sunday.
Emergency crews rescued dozens of people in western Alaska on Sunday as flooding from the remnants of Typhoon Halong battered remote coastal communities and tore houses off their foundations, officials said.
The Coast Guard and the Alaska National Guard, along with state law enforcement officers, used C-130 planes and Blackhawk helicopters to assist the low-lying villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, said Jeremy Zidek, a spokesman for the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
“It is a very serious situation,” he said.
No fatalities were reported on Sunday evening, but three people were unaccounted for in Kwigillingok and there were reports of people missing in Kipnuk, officials said. Some residents in the villages were injured by flying debris, said Amy Hendricks, a program manager for the Association of Village Council Presidents, a tribal consortium in western Alaska.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a statement that “every effort will be made to help those hit by this storm…”
