JUNEAU, Alaska — The Coast Guard and Capital City Fire/Rescue saved six people after a boat ran aground near Juneau, Saturday. A Capital City Fire/Rescue boat crew arrived on scene and took the people off their 24-foot boat after it ran aground on the Mendenhall Bar in Fritz Cove at approximately 4:30 p.m. A Coast […]
Alaska Fire Marshal Encourages Fire Safety at Construction Sites (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – This week the Division of Fire and Life Safety is calling attention to Arson Awareness Week. Today through Friday, May 11, the focal point for this awareness campaign is “Preventing Arson at Construction Sites.” “A fire at a construction site can be […]
UPDATE: AST has tentatively identified the identities of the two victims of the fatal Napakiak jail fire as Becca White, age 24, and Isaiah Parka, age 22, both of Napakiak. They also revealed that the guard who suffered injuries attempting to rescue them from their jail cells has been medevaced out of state for further […]
Volunteers to install more than 800 free smoke alarms in Alaska ANCHORAGE — Beginning this weekend, the American Red Cross will Sound the Alarm in Alaska as part of the nationwide Red Cross effort to help reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by home fires. The goal is to install 100,000 smoke alarms […]