Two firefighters from the Fairbanks Fire Department received minor injuries during Monday s warehouse fire in South Fairbanks. The firefighters were treated at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and are expected to recover quickly, according to a Tuesday news release from the city of Fairbanks. Besides the two firefighters, no one was hurt. The firefighters are feeling OK, and the chief expects them back to work in a week, Teal Soden, communications director for the city, wrote in an email to the News-Miner.Â
The fire started at C&R Pipe and Steel on Alta Way at approximately 3.30 p.m. Monday. Emergency crews responded within 6 minutes, put the fire out by approximately 7:54 p.m., and stayed on scene to take care of hot spots until 10:22 p.m.
Firefighters were called to a coal dust fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the Aurora Energy power plant in Fairbanks, AK, according to local news reports and information from the local fire department.
Crews from several fire departments responded to the 1
st Avenue facility at about 12:30 a.m. and worked for several hours to douse the flames, the City of Fairbanks Fire Department said in a statement posted to Facebook. The scene was cleared later that morning.
Another small fire broke out inside the facility on February 16. Television news station KTVF said that fire personnel were able to extinguish the fire within 20 or 30 minutes. A fire official said that coal dust may have fueled that blaze.