Alaska National Guardsmen departed Anchorage early Wednesday morning to assist residents of Yakutat with snow removal that threatens to damage or collapse dozens of buildings in the coastal community.
that threatens to damage or collapse dozens of buildings in the coastal community.
Alaska National Guardsmen have been deployed to Yakutat as heavy snow threatens to collapse dozens of buildings. The mix of heavy snowfall and freezing rain have forced the only health care clinic in the community to close, threatens the only water storage tank, the senior center, multiple schools and nearly every other business and government building. The letter from Bremner and Erickson said that snow removal contractors had “maxed out their resources” on just the health care clinic and are unable to assist in snow removal for much of the rest of the buildings that are threatened.
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