Akiak Fire

We just had a major catastrophe here. One of the local residents' house burnt up yesterday. I wasn't here to see the situation, but here's a fellow that was on hand at the time. Could you tell us who you are and a little bit what would happen? I'm sure my name is Ripea Silver's Regus. Well, thanks area, and I was taking out of my house when I noticed it. Now it's raining, coming out of the room. And that section right there. I've rushed here. At the same time, I got here. If you see the spot, it came. The boat's right to be getting some active inside the house, but the flames are really big, and coming out of the door, really, you know, really big. Not the thick smoke. It's right, but at the same time, you gain access to the house,

because it was almost impossible. I heard the victim only, you know, three or four times, and then I was just moaning. That time, you know, I'm about to start blowing up, you know, I almost offline around. So we were all for safety. And for the safety of the people, we, uh, right to get people out of here, you know, as far as we can. Just confront our third safety. That time wasn't too much to do, just to get their way up to the house, burn down. All the way to the ground, our fire drop is down, so it was nothing I can do with the fire drop. About three o'clock in the morning, everybody left. Because I heard somebody there, I, I guarded the place for, oh, I know. About three o'clock in the morning, I stopped searching. I think they can find any body in there.

And on the left side of the house was that, water heater is laying down right there. I found this body off, uh, with, you know, to be, uh, Jackson Williams Jr. He was totally burned. It was nothing to identify him. The only thing he was left was he saw the blade, got, uh, I see on the area, I'm waiting for the state to look at the next phase, so, uh, pick up the authority on the seat, so that he's run for to anchor to be in his house. That's about it. No, thank you very much. Well, assuming, uh, some of the records here. You know, I'm looking at 55,000 drumming, I am. You know, he was he's came to the Lincoln people.

But he was angry. You know, I was right. Oh, so. Where was the water tank or the, the tank we found him? That, okay, you see that? Scredal, that heater tank right there beside, you know, you see the fire. You look through your right, huh? That, that heater tank. He was playing right there, right there. He's down. Yeah. Look like he tried to get away. It was a window right there. He looked like he tried to get away, but the fire just completely. Yeah. Yeah. Any idea maybe what started this fire? Well, it looked to be, you see the stove is right there. Right. We found beside the body, we found a can that you have. Well, this, you know, really made of fatigue. You know, you can't tell what's really hot and just a hot. We found another can, but that's especially that one. It was really coming up down. So we assumed that the guy was trying to start the stove and it's right there beside that water here

where the fire is spread up. It's a stove. He was trying to start the stove. And he curled that in there. And got away from him when he put the can be because we found the can inside him. He took that. He, when he light up the fire, he backs fire. And he's filled the gas on his, on his feet. And he cut off fire on his body. Got, you know, his legs and stuff got cut off fire. He tried to fire, you know, try to, you know, I guess put away somehow. Yeah. I'm away from him, but it was too late. At that time, seems to me that just, the fire got out of his hand and he can't make it out. You know, got away his hair. Yeah. He just, he just put up right there, face down the floor, probably trying to get away from the, right, right away from the window, but he never made it. He just fell in there and burnt his head.

That's terrible. Yeah, it is. How old was he? He was around 45 years old. 24 years old. He was a good guy. He's definitely a good guy. He was definitely that crazy. That is for you. That is for you. It is a real example. Did you have to get a flip and gas in there? No, he wasn't. He was I saw him out our earlier, subtle heat, but he was, he was, you know, good shapes. He was a good... So, it was a complete accident. I hope the people I get together now and think that we can get these parts going so if we have an emergency like this we can take care of the people. Absolutely. I don't want to help anybody to do that with glasses. Thank you.

Thank you.