Officials with the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management announced a reduction of some state emergency response operations on Friday, and a transition from a response to a recovery phase following the Western Alaska storms as winter sets in.

The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded $1 million in grant funding to support disaster-relief jobs and employment and training services for Alaska residents in the aftermath of severe storms and flooding caused by Typhoon Halong. 

Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed an extension of the state’s disaster declaration on Saturday, Nov. 8 to continue emergency response and recovery efforts following the Western Alaska storms, including the remnants of Typhoon Halong. 

Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed an extension of the state’s disaster declaration on Saturday to continue emergency response and recovery efforts following the Western Alaska storms, including the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

The funding will be used to make temporary repairs to infrastructure or utilities and staffing emergency operations

Federal officials who toured former Typhoon Halong-devastated Western Alaska villages this weekend heard residents dispute official damage assessments, with one community advocate saying destruction in Kwigillingok was far worse than what the governor’s disaster declaration request reported.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy has issued an amendment to the Disaster Declaration for communities impacted by the series of powerful fall storms affecting Western and Northern Alaska.

U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, and Congressman Nick Begich (all R-Alaska) today thanked President Donald Trump for swiftly approving Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R-Alaska) request for a federal disaster declaration in response to the widespread devastation caused by the remnants of Typhoon Halong across Western Alaska, particularly throughout the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta region.

President Donald J. Trump has approved a federal disaster declaration for the State of Alaska due to the 2025 West Coast Storm.

The president also pledged $25 million in immediate disaster relief funding to cover costs as storm damage is still assessed.

Typhoon from 11 October weekend destroyed 90% of structures and displaced 1,500 people in south-west Alaska.