NOME, Alaska – Chief of Police Michael Heintzelman and Deputy Chief of Police Robert Pruckner announced an update Tuesday in the Nome Police Department’s investigation into the disappearance of Florence Okpealuk. To date, the following law enforcement actions, investigative activities, and search efforts have taken place since Ms. Okplealuk was first reported missing: • […]
Nome police announced on Sunday that a vehicle and its driver who they sought for information they may have in connection with the disappearance of Florence Okpealuk, age 33, has been located. Okpealuk has been missing since August 31. She was last seen on West Beach that day. She is described as standing 5’2″ […]
NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA, Virginia – Air National Guardsmen from across the nation united to provide assistance and rescue isolated flood survivors in North Carolina, Sept. 17, in response to extreme flooding from the wake of Hurricane Florence battering North and South Carolina. The task force of 181 Guardsmen from Alaska, California, Kentucky, New York, […]
A video of the U.S. Air Force Reserve’s “Hurricane Hunters” flying through the center of Hurricane Florence went viral. Between Florence and storms in the Gulf of Mexico and Hawaii, the daredevil crews who fly planes into the heart of extreme weather to record meteorological data have had a busy week. “Every storm has its […]