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Two houses in Delta Junction were heavily damaged by fire Monday. Both structures were unoccupied, and no one was injured. The state Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of one of the fires, which sparked rumors locally about a serial arsonist.
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Alaska State Troopers are investigating a so-called “swatting” incident that led law-enforcement officers to raid a North Pole-area home after they got a false report about a murder and other violent crimes in progress.
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The volunteer fire department that covers the greater Delta Junction area has temporarily shut down operations, following a financial breach that’s left it unable to pay for insurance.
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Chinook winds gusting up to 75 miles an hour Saturday blew trees onto power lines and knocked out electricity for up to 10 hours in an area stretching from North Pole to Tok.
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Denali National Park and Preserve rangers have decided it’s too dangerous to recover the bodies of the pilot and passenger of a small airplane that crashed last week in a remote and mountainous area of the park. Meanwhile, an investigation into the crash continues.
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NewsAlaska State Troopers are looking for a couple of tourists from Tennessee who missed their return flight home and haven’t contacted family members.
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Authorities have released the names of the two victims who are presumed to have died after the airplane they were in crashed Wednesday in a steep ravine in the southwest corner of Denali National Park and Preserve. And now park rangers and investigators are trying to figure out how get to the crash site and recover the victims’ bodies.
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NewsAuthorities say the Wednesday crash of a small plane in Denali National Park and Preserve, spotted from the air by rescuers who couldn’t initially reach it, likely killed anyone aboard.
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NewsState and federal firefighters hustled Tuesday to respond to a second day of lightning strikes that have ignited more than 50 wildfires around the state since Monday afternoon. And the agencies released new estimates on the number of lightning strikes around the state over the past two days.
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NewsTwo of the fires ignited by lightning Monday are burning in areas off the Pogo gold mine access road north of Delta Junction.
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Firefighters are nearing containment of the Lake George Fire south of Delta Junction, and they’re also working two new smaller fires that sprung up nearby over the holiday weekend. They may get some help later tonight, when cooler temperatures and a chance of rain are forecast.
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The state Forestry Division declared a wildfire just south of Eielson Air Force Base fully contained Thursday. And an investigator has begun looking into the cause of the Piledriver Slough Fire.