It was 1 a.m. and Jacob Berg was watching his home burn.
He’d been sound asleep just minutes before. He woke to knocking. Then he heard the fire alarms, but he didn’t think much of it, since pranksters had been pulling them all summer. When he opened his front door though, he found a wall of smoke outside his 3rd floor condominium in South Anchorage. The beams of police officer’s flashlights bounced down the hallway.
“You know, if the police weren’t there, I wouldn’t have made it out,” he said. “If they weren’t knocking on the door…”…