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George Cottrelland and Robert Bioussard...Read more Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson
Ketchikan: KFD Responds To Motor Home Fire - Lt. Dave Breitkreutdz of the Ketchikan Fire Department told Sitnews Sunday evening that the Ketchikan Fire Department received a call at 3:14 pm Sunday reporting a motor home fire on Stedman Street at the rock pit location south of Tatsuda's IGA. Breitkreutdz said there was extensive fire damage to the unoccupied motor home and that the motor home was probably a total loss. He said the boat parked next to the motor home also suffered some damage. There were no injuries and Lt. Breitkreutdz said the cause of the fire is still under investigation. The firefighters had the job
wrapped up by 4:30 pm. - More
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Ketchikan: Williams
Cuts Ribbon At KGH Van Dedication - Representative Bill Williams
(Saxman - R) cuts the ribbon during Friday's dedication of the
new long term care van for Ketchikan General Hospital. Williams
was able to secure $45,000 for the final funding for the vehicle.
- Photos... Alaska: Stedman:
Resources are top priority - Sen. Bert Stedman spent six
months finishing the woodwork in his Sitka home, including carved
banisters, Brazilian rosewood flooring and steamed cherry and
padouk inlays. - Read
this story... Alaska: Native
language programs running afoul of No Child Left Behind -
Some western Alaska schools that for decades have taught and
helped preserve the Native Yupik language are in a quandary over
meeting new federal testing requirements under the No Child Left
Behind Act. - Read
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A fire department in any community, large or small,
commands citizen respect. When fire sirens blare, traffic obediently
tries to pull over and people hold their breaths - hoping it's
not their house, their business, their school or anyone they
know. Fire has been a frightening scourge in history from Nero
in Rome to Chicago's Mrs. O'Leary to Ketchikan's Bill Mitchell.
As new American communities sprang up in the "Go west, young
man" spirit of the nineteenth century, one of the first
things responsible pioneers did was establish fire departments.
When the westward-ho movement reached the Pacific coast and the
settlement-surge angled north, fire departments were among the
very first organizations founded in Alaska. - 
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