Multiagency Response and Recovery Efforts Continue After Tuluksak Water Plant Fire
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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Response and recovery efforts continue this week in Tuluksak after the community’s water plant was destroyed in a fire last month.
Personnel from the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs visited Tuluksak Monday and Tuesday. The department’s tribal liaison and an emergency management specialist met with local leaders to tour the temporary water treatment facilities, assess the amount of available potable water, and discuss the community’s plans for short- and long-term solutions.
“Much work has been done to ensure Alaskans in Tuluksak have sufficient potable water supplies,” said DMVA’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management director, Paul Nelson. “We have a long way to go before Tuluksak will have a long-term solution to the water issues they are experiencing, but temporar
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“The washeteria is on fire!” he burst out when his sister’s door opened.
Kristy had been cooking a turkey for her daughter s birthday, but a threat to the village s only source of treated drinking water spurred her to action. She threw on her dark purple coat. Nelson dropped the diced moose meat with steamed jasmine rice he had been eating and ran outside.
It was Jan. 16, around 11 a.m. With no running water to the homes in Tuluksak, Alaska, most residents relied on the water piped to the village s laundry building, which also housed the water treatment plant. Now, thick smoke poured through cracks in the building and from under the doors. The only hope to put it out was with a hose – which was in the burning building.
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