67 Local Volunteers and Partners Helped Make 373 Households Safer During National Sound the Alarm Home Fire Safety Effort ANCHORAGE – The American Red Cross of Alaska installed more than 959 free smoke alarms in local homes over the last month as part of the national Sound the Alarm home fire safety effort. […]
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 […]
Two Fairbanks men have been arrested following a burglary investigation at the Department of Natural Resources facility. Alaska State Troopers received the burglary report from DNR at 10:07 am on Friday and responded to investigate. When they arrived at the buildings where DNR and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks operated, they found that two ski-doo […]
Fairbanks’ air quality issues began in 1901, when shallow water grounded a gold rush entrepreneur. That August day, when a hired steamship could take them no farther up the Chena River, E.T. Barnette and his wife found themselves deposited on a sandy shoreline in the middle of Alaska. Gold miners soon found Barnette had sacks […]