Around Alaska: Anchorage blaze busters get new fire truck
A 25-year-old fire truck has been replaced by the Anchorage Fire Department.
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A 25-year-old fire truck has been replaced by the Anchorage Fire Department.
The risk mounts with each passing year, a new report concludes: Lengthening fire seasons, natural increase in vegetation loads, climate-change-driven weather patterns and dwindling budgets for fire mitigation “pose an increasingly higher risk for the potential loss of life, homes, and infrastructure.”
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Anchorage police said that a woman driving a Pontiac G6 was heading south on Minnesota shortly after 11 p.m. when a Chevy Silverado began turning onto Northern Lights while traveling north on Minnesota.
Chelsea Jensen-Roehl was struck Tuesday afternoon and remained hospitalized Thursday after a nearly eight-hour surgery to repair crushed ribs on her right side, her mother said.