From a group of volunteers working to salvage a woman’s home to a hotel reopening to offer a safe place to stay, the people of Haines are showing they can lean on each other.
Search & Rescue
LISTEN: Haines man describes rescue after landslide hits neighbors’ homes
Joe Aultman-Moore was sitting in his cabin in Haines last Wednesday when a large landslide swept through several neighboring houses. Aultman-Moore spoke with KHNS about what he saw during his rescue from the slide area.
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“We didn’t open this summer,” said the Hotel Halsingland’s owner. “But I guess we’re opening this winter instead.”
More Haines residents prepared to evacuate their homes as weather deteriorates
Snow, ice and then rain complicated the efforts in Haines of city and state crews that have been working to clear roads of landslides and debris, because most of them spent the morning clearing snow before they could get to work.
In Haines, clean-up and search efforts happen in brief good-weather window
State geologists on Saturday said the ground was too unstable and recommended that search crews stay away from the slide zone.
Search and rescue teams in Haines still hopeful they’ll find missing residents alive
Two teams searched debris that washed onto miles of shoreline north of the slide. Juneau Mountain Rescue and two dog teams stand by at the slide site, waiting for the green light from geologists to begin the land search.
Dozens of Haines residents evacuated from their homes as rain and landslides continue
Dozens more homes in Haines were evacuated Thursday night as rain continued to saturate the mountainsides near residential neighborhoods.
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Four of the six people thought to be missing on Wednesday were accounted for Thursday morning. But Beach Road residents Jenae Larson and David Simmons have been missing since Wednesday afternoon’s mudslide.
Four of six feared missing in Haines landslide found safe
Searchers will continue to look Thursday for two people still missing after a large landslide rumbled through a residential area on Beach Road residential area in Haines Wednesday afternoon, destroying at least four houses, Alaska State Troopers said.
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Coast Guard pilot Justin Neal called it “absolutely the most challenging rescue that I’ve been able to prosecute.”