Fire

The total loss of the main administrative building for the lower Yukon River community comes a little more than a month after a fatal fire destroyed the jail attached to the building.

When Quinhagak’s Native corporation expressed interest this summer in getting residents trained up, the Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection also saw an opportunity.

According to troopers, another man also being held at the facility was safely evacuated, and a village police officer (VPO) was sent to Bethel to be treated for minor injuries following the incident.

Students at Bethel Regional High School evacuated to a nearby building on Oct. 16 after a fire broke out in a girls’ bathroom near the gymnasium sometime that afternoon.

Community members who reported hearing gunfire on July 25 banded together to put out the blaze, but troopers have not yet said whether the remains are those of the alleged shooter.

High winds caused a small fire at the landfill in Quinhagak to quickly spread to the nearby tundra earlier this week, threatening the community and coming within feet of an active archaeological dig.

A family lost everything when their home in Nunapitchuk burned down. Luckily, the family was out of town and nobody was injured. Nunapitchuk Village…

The Lower Yukon community of Kotlik all pitched in, and the Kotlik School was able to open its doors only a few days behind schedule after a fire…

The Bethel Fire Department responded to the Kilbuck school building for a report of a second fire.According to a press release from the fire department,…