On 08/25/11 at 2248 hours, AST received a report of a missing boater near Allakaket. It was reported that four people, all of Allakaket, were on a boat on 8/24/201. When the other three returned to Allakaket without the boat on 8/25/2011, they reported one person had fallen in the water and disappeared. The boat was later found out of gas 12 miles downriver from the village on the Koyukuk River.  On the morning of  8/26/2011, an Alaska State Trooper and Alaska Wildlife Trooper responded from Fairbanks in an AWT  Cessna 185 to coordinate the search for victim. They conducted aerial searches in the area, while numerous boats searched the river in both directions without finding victim. The search of the rivers and creeks near Allakaket resumes today. Alcohol appears to have been a factor.
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