KODIAK, Alaska – Unified Command responders continue cleanup efforts and wildlife assessments of the oil spill site at Port William, in Shuyak Strait, 49 miles north of Kodiak, Friday. Ninety-six bags of oily solids have been collected and are being stored on the vessels Nuka Island and Retriever. Responders are maintaining the inflatable containment boom […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – It has been more than six weeks since 155 mph winds from Hurricane Maria savaged Puerto Rico, and almost one month since Soldiers and Airmen of the Alaska National Guard arrived to assist with much-needed humanitarian relief. Guard members from the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th and 176th Wings and […]
The north-bound lane of the Sterling Highway at mile 37.5 was was closed for approximately eight hours on Tuesday night as crews worked to clear the roadway of salmon after a Kenworth tractor overturned, spilling fish all over the highway. AST were called to the scene at 7:11 pm on Tuesday evening after a Kenworth […]
[wds id=”6″] Kodiak Island Village Cleanup Kodiak, AK, April 10, 2017: From June 2015 to December 2016, the village communities in the Kodiak Island Archipelago participated in a massive clean-up effort resulting in 2,625.5 tons of scrap metal. 27,939 pounds of lead acid batteries, 1,715 pounds of electronic waste, twenty-nine 55-gallon drums of contaminated fuel […]