Logger found dead of natural causes on Zarembo

Workers at a logging camp on nearby Zarembo Island discovered the body of a Nevada man in the early evening of March 24.

David Fussell, 55, of Stagecoach, Nev., was found unresponsive by a coworker in the passenger seat of a parked truck. First aid was performed, but Fussell was declared dead on the scene when emergency personnel arrived.

Alaska State Troopers were notified just before 5 p.m. Fussell’s body was sent to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy. The death is considered to be of natural causes, with Troopers reporting no foul play is suspected.

Fussell’s next of kin have been notified. He had been an employee of Evergreen Timber, working at a site 12 miles west of Wrangell.