United Cajun Navy Sends Supplies, Volunteers to Recovery Effort in Alaska

The group is heading to typhoon-hit areas to provide assistance, and especially to help evacuees reunite with the pets they were forced to leave behind.

Boxes of supplies are prepared to be sent to Alaska by the United Cajun Navy in Baton Rouge, La., on Oct. 18, 2025. Courtesy of the United Cajun Navy

From the Mississippi Delta to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, the United Cajun Navy journeyed north this week, bringing supplies and decades of disaster response experience to communities in western Alaska devastated by Typhoon Halong.

Meteorologist Amy Metz and Incident Commander Josh Gill met up in Anchorage on Oct. 18, forming the spearhead of their nonprofit’s presence amid the consortium of government and nonprofit recovery teams already working hard to evacuate hundreds of people to safe, warm shelters, keep them clothed and fed, and complete a damage assessment as winter begins to descend upon the state.