A large air and ground search was underway Friday for two 18-year-olds who have been missing in Northwest Alaska for four days.
Searchers are looking for Thomas Aki Pungalik Brown, left, and Josiah Ballot, both 18, who went missing on Monday during a snowmachine trip from Kotzebue to Noorvik. was underway Friday for two 18-year-olds missing for four days in Northwest Alaska.
Brown told his family that he “was going to go help his cousin, and he took off” from Noorvik to Kotzebue, according to his mother Melinda Cleveland, who lives in Ambler. Selawik search and rescue teams on Wednesday night discuss a plan to locate Thomas Aki Pungalik Brown and Josiah Ballot, who went missing on Monday around Kotzebue.
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