Author: Angela Denning, CoastAlaska

State officials announced Thursday that teams have searched every place they can without the use of heavy machinery. The response strategy is now moving from “an active search to a reactive one.”

At the slide site, search and rescue dogs will be searching atop the slide debris and from small boats along the shore where the slide ran off into the water.

“It’s just such a tight-knit community that you know, you always know somebody or somebody affected by whatever happened during a tragedy on an island like this,” said Mike Lewis who owns Tiny Taxi.

There have been helicopters and drones doing aerial surveys, looking for the three missing people. There are folks in the slide area working through the mud and downed trees, crews with chainsaws and search and rescue dogs on the ground, as well.