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Rescuers in western Alaska are working to find missing residents and help the over 1,000 people displaced after ferocious, hurricane-force wind gusts from what once was Typhoon Halong tore through remote,
The three people unaccounted for are from Kwigillingok, one of the communities devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.
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In the past, large-scale exercises “occurred in Alaska,” one general says. “Now, this is high-end training that is occurring — that is about Alaska, from Alaska.”
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Multiple military search and rescue helicopters and planes were scrambled after Typhoon Halong swept away homes in western Alaska.
Winds up to 100 mph and record tidal surges were reported in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta as the remnants of Typhoon Halong hammered the Bering Sea coast over the weekend.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong have devastated Western Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, leaving 20 people unaccounted for in Kwigillingok and forcing families to evacuate as homes were swept off their foundations by record flooding, according to Alaska Public Media.
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