Overview

• Alaska State Troopers, the Coast Guard, and National Guard ended active search-and-rescue after extensive sweeps using drones, boats, and aircraft.
• One person was confirmed dead in Kwigillingok — 67-year-old Ella Mae Kashatok — and two people remain unaccounted for.
• Roughly 1,500 residents were displaced across the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, with about 400 sheltering in Kwigillingok’s school without working toilets and nearly 600 in Kipnuk facing limited power and plumbing.
• Preliminary assessments described catastrophic housing damage in Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, including dozens of homes shifted off foundations, while closed airports, flooded power systems, and downed communications constrained access.
• Responders reported dozens of rescues — 34 by the U.S. Coast Guard, nine by the Alaska Army National Guard, and eight by the Alaska Air National Guard — as operations shift to evacuating medically vulnerable residents to Bethel and planning longer-term shelter options in Fairbanks and Anchorage.