Troopers report that the identity of the man involved in Saturday’s Wasilla fire as 71-year-old Randy Algood. Alaska State Troopers and firefighters responded to a blaze at a residence in Wasilla at 10:50 am on Saturday. During the response, Algood was located in the home and removed for life-saving efforts but was ultimately declared deceased […]
Alaska State Troopers responded to an address on Terrell Drive in Wasilla after receiving a report of a fire at that location at 11:42 pm on Saturday night. Upon arrival, troopers found the residential structure on the property fully engulfed in flames. Later, after the fire was extinguished, troopers would find the remains of two […]
Getting information about where wildfire smoke is headed in Alaska has become easy for the public, thanks to collaboration between the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Alaska Fire Service. UAF researchers and data experts have worked with the Alaska Fire Service to add air quality information to the agency’s popular map and data website. […]
“Such events are an all-too-common and exceptionally dangerous reality for those living within fossil fuel and petrochemical ‘sacrifice zones,’” observed one researcher. A mandatory evacuation was ordered for thousands of people living within a two-mile radius of a Marathon Petroleum refinery in Louisiana’s so-called “Cancer Alley” after a chemical leak and massive fire broke out […]