Unalaska Fish Processors Contend With Evacuating Hundreds Of Plant Employees During Tsunami Warning
Update: 2020-07-28
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A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit south of Chignik last week, prompting tsunami warnings in communities across coastal Alaska. As community members across the Eastern Aleutians and Alaska Peninsula got alerts to get to higher ground, fish processors in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor — the nation's top fishing port in terms of volume — had hundreds of plant employees to evacuate. And for some, the evacuation went smoothly. But for others, even receiving the tsunami warning was problematic. During a tsunami siren test earlier this summer, half of Unalaska's antiquated sirens failed to sound . The city — which purchased the equipment in 1996 — said only three out of the seven sirens distributed across the two islands, which make up the community of Unalaska, are working. For processing plants like UniSea — one of the largest seafood processors in the world — which is located near one of the three working tsunami sirens, Tuesday night's evacuation went down without a hitch. "I think we did pretty good
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