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Anchorage preparing to house more than 1,000 Western Alaska storm evacuees across 4 shelters

Anchorage preparing to house more than 1,000 Western Alaska storm evacuees across 4 shelters
nation10/17/2025

Anchorage will temporarily shelter people at the Alaska Airlines Center, the Egan Center and the Fairview and Spenard recreation centers.

State and local officials are preparing four shelters in Anchorage that could potentially accommodate more than 1,000 people displaced by unprecedented and catastrophic storms that have left whole Western Alaska communities largely uninhabitable. As ... [8157 chars]