On August 2nd, 1924, a fire broke out in the power plant in Kennicott, the world’s leading producer of copper in the world. The steam-powered power plant produced electricity for the mines in the mountains, the Bonanza, Jumbo, Mother Lode, and Erie, as well as for the town that had sprung up to house and […]
The fire prevention order is in effect until October 31 unless rescinded FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Wednesday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fairbanks District issued a fire prevention order prohibiting campfires, fireworks and explosives on federal lands in a fire-prone area of black spruce near Fox, Alaska, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) […]
The USCG responded to a call from the 178-foot passenger vessel Wilderness Discoverer that was in Glacier Bay National Park at 7:30 am on Monday and Coast Guard cutters Pike and Anthony Petit along with an Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk dispatched to assist. The Wilderness Discoverer had called in and reported that the vessel […]
Early Friday morning at 4:42 am, the Fairbanks Fire Department was alerted to a structural fire at 725 2nd Avenue and responded to the location to find the building fully engulfed. According to the investigation, a bystander alerted the two occupants in the building and they managed to get out of the structure unharmed. “A […]