At 2:53 pm on Friday, Alaska State Troopers responded to a call of a Burglary in progress at a North Pole residence. The owner had come home, opened his door and heard noises inside, and so, called troopers and waited outside for them.
Alaska Fish and Wildlife officers in Coldfoot were contacted early Friday morning at 6:55 by the Chandalar Department of Transportation Camp that one of their employees had taken a serious fall and was suffering from significant injuries at the camp.
During the early morning hours of Friday, 28-year-old Bruce, and 33-year-old Grant Ilutsik, heard their boats banging around in the storm moving through the area and so went to investigate.
At 7:55pm on Thursday, when his brother, Rex Iyatunguk, and his family did not arrive as scheduled from Nome, where they had left at 2 pm, Preston Dixon of Teller contacted the troopers in Nome to report them overdue.