Officials say a woman died in New York City after being struck by a solar panel amid powerful wind and rain Monday.
Officials say a woman died in New York City after being struck by a solar panel amid powerful wind and rain Monday.
More than 30 people were rescued and three people remain unaccounted for in western Alaska after the remnants of Typhoon Halong brought hurricane-force winds and flooding strong enough to sweep away entire homes in coastal communities, authorities said.
Elsewhere in the U.S., severe weather killed a woman in New York City who was struck by a solar panel. Rescuers in the Phoenix area, meanwhile, searched for a man whose truck was swept away by floodwaters and crews in southern California prepared for potential mudslides in fire-ravaged areas.
In Alaska, rescue aircraft were sent to the tiny villages of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, where there were reports of people possibly unaccounted for, said Jeremy Zidek, spokesperson for the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
“We have received reports that people’s homes have floated away and that people were potentially in those homes,” Zidek told The Associated Press.
In Kwigillingok, at least 18 people were rescued and three people remained unaccounted for, Alaska State Troopers said in a social media post on Sunday evening. In Kipnuk, at least 16 people were rescued and troopers had received secondhand reports of people who were unaccounted for. Search efforts were expected to continue overnight as conditions allowed.
According to the nonprofit Coastal Villages Region Fund, nearly 600 people in Kipnuk and about 300 people in Kwigillingok were taking shelter in schools.
