A fire at a 20-unit apartment complex in Mountain View last night left one person.
A Wednesday evening fire at a apartment complex in Anchorage’s Mountain View neighborhood left one person dead and displaced everyone else living there overnight, firefighters say.
According to Anchorage Fire Department Assistant Chief Alex Boyd, crews responded just before 8 p.m. to a 20-unit, two-story apartment building on the 400 block of North Bragaw Street. There were flames and smoke visible from the second floor. One person was reported missing, but was soon found by police outside of a second-floor apartment, said Boyd.
“They moved that person to the fire crews who initiated care,” he said. “The person was declared dead at the scene due to the level of injuries that they sustained.”Only the victim’s unit burned in the blaze, Boyd said, but water from fire hoses damaged several other units. Everyone living in the building was displaced Wednesday night, with the Red Cross of Alaska providing assistance.
Investigators are working to identify where and how the fire started, Boyd said. He said it’s unknown if there were working smoke alarms in the building or the engulfed apartment.Wednesday’s blaze was Anchorage’s fifth fatal fire of 2023.
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