This 1,350-foot LORAN tower was the tallest structure in Alaska until Coast Guard civil engineers and Controlled Demolition Inc. brought it down at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Port Clarence, the Coast Guard says.

"The condition of the tower was deteriorating and with no funding for repairs the tower was at ever-increasing risk of an uncontrolled collapse," the Coast Guard writes. "Alaska Public TeleCommunications' tower in Knik, 30 miles north of Anchorage, will become the state's tallest structure at 808 feet."

Port Clarence is west of Teller on the Seward Peninsula.