Alaska Home Fire Victims: One Dead, One Recovering
I was scrolling through local updates when one headline stopped me cold — a deadly house fire right here in Eagle River. One person gone, another in the hospital, and all of it happened in the middle of the afternoon, near Skyline Drive and Roseberry Park Drive.
If you’ve ever driven past that area, you know it’s quiet, tucked away from the bustle of Anchorage. It’s the last place you’d picture fire trucks rushing in from multiple stations, hauling water because there’s no hydrant nearby. Yet that’s exactly what happened on Monday.
What gets me is how quickly life can turn upside down. One person barely made it out through a window. Another never made it at all. And while investigators are still digging through the ashes, one thing is already clear — this is the kind of tragedy that forces you to look around your own home and ask, “Would we be ready if it happened here?”…