I once wrote about how fire had ravaged more than 10 percent of Interior Alaska during two smoky summers. A wildlife biologist called me out for choosing an inadequate verb. Tom Paragi chooses words that are more positive when he looks at a burned forest. Paragi works with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game […]
Three people were injured and one perished in a fire at the Spirit of Alaska Lodge at the old “Parks Cannery,” on the west side of Kodiak Island on Thursday. A MayDay was broadcast on VHF channel 16 from the old cannery in Uyak Bay at approximately 4 am Thursday morning reporting the fire, and the Mayor of […]
An Anchorage man narrowly escaped death in a car fire on Middlerock Road on Sunday afternoon as citizens and an Anchorage Police Officer freed him from the wreck in the nick of time. Officer Veenstra was the first officer on the scene after a report was called in to Anchorage Police at 4 pm on […]
Investigators are still working to determine the cause of a small fire at the Tobacco Distress Inc building near mile 91.5 of the Sterling Highway that occurred on Thursday night, the trooper dispatch revealed on Friday. Troopers and fire crews from the Central Emergency Services responded to the scene at 11:29 pm on Thursday night […]