3 Dead and 3 Missing After Landslide Rips Through Remote Alaska Fishing Community

3 Dead and 3 Missing After Landslide Rips Through Remote Alaska Fishing Community
The landslide that occurred the previous evening near Wrangell, Alaska, on Nov. 21, 2023. Alaska Department of Public Safety via AP
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JUNEAU, Alaska—Three people were killed and three were missing after a landslide barreled down a heavily forested, rain-soaked mountainside and smashed into homes in a remote fishing community in southeast Alaska.

The slide—estimated to be 450 feet wide—occurred at about 9 p.m. Monday during a significant rain and windstorm near Wrangell, an island community of 2,000 people some 155 miles south of the state capital of Juneau.