Calls to police are surging in charred community

Guardsmen will patrol fire-ravaged village
HOOPER BAY: Calls to police are surging in charred community.

By ALEX deMARBAN, Anchorage Daily News
Published: August 10, 2006, Last Modified: August 10, 2006 at 03:37 AM

Alaska National Guard soldiers, with help from some volunteers, will help maintain order in the fire-ravaged village of Hooper Bay.

Police in the Southwest Alaska village of 1,133 are facing a surge in calls since the massive Aug. 3 fire, Police Chief James Hoelscher said Wednesday.

Hooper Bayers are panicky, and rightfully so — especially if they see kids playing with matches, he said.”
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Four volunteers with the Alaska State Defense Force, civilians who assist during emergencies under the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, will help police shoo kids from the dangerous piles of twisted metal rising from the soot where the fire raged, Hoelscher said.

Seven guardsmen will help patrol the village and keep the peace….

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/story/8062331p-7955268c.html

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1 Pam 2006 August 15 at 7:17 pm

Children faulted in Hooper Bay fire

MATCHES: Kids playing under school started blaze that spread through village.

By ALEX deMARBAN Anchorage Daily News
Published: August 15, 2006 Last Modified: August 15, 2006 at 02:12 AM

Kids playing with matches started a fire that destroyed at least $30 million in property and left more than 70 people homeless in the Southwest Alaska village of Hooper Bay, fire investigators said Monday.

The kids, younger than 12, crawled late at night through gaps in the wooden skirting around the base of the village’s old school — built on pilings — where they lit grass and trash fires, said Alaska State Trooper spokesman Greg Wilkinson.”…[emphasis added]

The kids apparently did not mean to destroy the school, investigators said.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/8081382p-7974285c.html

2 Jesse Zink 2006 August 18 at 4:41 pm

On the plus side, at least they have a police force in Hooper Bay and a very good one at that. I was very impressed when I was in Hooper Bay by their professionalism and competency. Not all rural Alaska villages even have one law enforcement officer. What “equal protection under the law”?

3 Pam 2006 August 18 at 5:00 pm

“Fire or no fire, kids will go back to school in Hooper Bay
by Shane Iverson, KYUK
Lower Yukon school district officials have a plan for making sure students in Hooper bay get an education this fall. Superintendant John Lamott made the announcement at a meeting last night in Hooper Bay. The Hooper Bay school burned to the ground earlier this month in a fire that also destroyed 14 homes and a village store. About 400 students in kindergarten through 12th grade attend school in Hooper Bay.”
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