Amazon Delivers Aid to Typhoon-Devastated Alaska

Disaster relief flight brings essential supplies to Red Cross for remote western villages.

Meg Godlewski

Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM ET

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Amazon partners with the Red Cross to bring much-needed supplies to storm-ravaged western Alaska villages.[Courtesy: Amazon]

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Amazon Disaster Relief conducted its first flight to Alaska, delivering thousands of pounds of emergency supplies via Amazon Air to the Red Cross for villages devastated by a recent typhoon.
The typhoon severely impacted 49 villages in western Alaska, leading to the evacuation of 1,500 people and causing widespread destruction, leaving many areas unlivable.
Amazon's Disaster Relief program partners with organizations like the Red Cross, leveraging its logistics network to provide rapid aid and has delivered over 26 million relief items globally since 2017.

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You can get pretty much anything from Amazon, and the residents of the villages in western Alaska devastated by the recent typhoon pretty much need everything.

So it makes sense that the Amazon Disaster Relief recently coordinated its first disaster response flight to the Last Frontier, bringing thousands of pounds of emergency supplies via Amazon Air to the Red Cross in Anchorage. The first shipment arrived on Sunday, October 19.