This Day in Alaska History-February 14th, 1909
Blue Arctic Waste Driver Crushed by Sliding Truck
Anchorage police responded to the 5200-block of Caribou Avenue on Thursday morning in reference to a fatal accident involving a Blue Arctic Waste garbage truck driver they report. Witnesses to the accident administered CPR on the driver until medics arrived on the scene but he was pronounced deceased shortly thereafter. APD opened an investigation at […]
Man Fatally Crushed in Mat-Su Borough Landfill Accident
A call to AST dispatch requested an ambulance to the Mat-Su Borough landfill at 9:11am resulted in a response to the scene in a futile attempt to resuscitate the accident victim, AST revealed. The investigation at the scene found that the victim, who was later identified by authorities as 59-year-old Lorin R. Ellsworth of Moses […]
Miami Bridge Collapses on Eight Lanes of Traffic with Fatalities
A 950-ton bridge that was put into place on Saturday at the Florida International University in Miami collapsed on Thursday, killing at least six and injuring at least eight, reports from Miami reveal. The pedestrian bridge constructed at the university spanned eight lanes of traffic on the Tamiami Trail. When it collapsed, the vehicles beneath […]