Alaska State Troopers are investigating a crash on the North Tongass Highway and are asking that anyone with knowledge of the crash to contact them at 907-225-5118. Troopers responded to the scene of the crash near mile 14 of the highway at 9:57 am on Wednesday morning. Upon their arrival, along with North Tongass Fire […]
Troopers report that two trailers were consumed in a fire in North Pole on Monday night as a result of a fire pit in one of the trailers. The North Star Volunteer Fire Department responded to a blaze on Memory Avenue in North Pole at approximately 7:26 pm on Monday evening to find two trailers […]
UPDATE: The State Medical Examiner’s Office positively identified the five children who perished in the early morning blaze as, “Alexis Quakenbush, 12, Nevaeh Flores, 8, Lilyanna Flores, 7, Sofia Flores, 6, Jaelynn Flores, 3, all of Palmer,” AST revealed. Megan Peters of the Department of Public Safety, went on to report, “All children died as […]
A mixture of young and veteran Alaska firefighters left BLM Alaska Fire Service facilities at Fort Wainwright Friday morning to help with the busy fire season in the Lower 48. Three emergency firefighter crews from Upper Kalskag, Selawik and Noorvik plus the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanook Fire Crew were handed two sack lunches and boarded […]