Mason Vallarma is the interim manager of the City and Borough of Wrangell. The deadly Nov. 20, 2023 landslide happened on his first day on the job. (Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) The lethal ...

Just over three inches of rain fell in Wrangell during a 24-hour period beginning early Monday morning. Officials estimated the landslide, which stretched from the uplands to the coast, was 500 ...

Alaska State Troopers said in a statement that three homes were in the direct path of the disaster around 8:50 p.m. local time Monday near Wrangell, a fishing community with just over 2,000 ...

Peter Boyd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Juneau, Alaska, said that in the six hours before the landslide, a total of 1.13 inches of rain fell at the nearby Wrangell Airport.

A landslide occurred after 9 p.m. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023 just south of Pat Creek Road in Wrangell, Alaska. (Alaska Dept. of Transportation and Public Facilities photo) ...

Wrangell received about 2 inches of rain between 1 a.m. and 8 p.m. Monday, with wind gusts up to 60 mph at higher elevations, said Aaron Jacobs, a hydrologist and meteorologist with the National ...