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...were lifted Wednesday. "For the potential we had coming at us, we've come out of it with minor damage," said Tim Biggane, emergency operations manager for the Fairbanks North Star Borough. The Salcha River, which reached its highest level...
...were lifted Wednesday. "For the potential we had coming at us, we've come out of it with minor damage," said Tim Biggane, emergency operations manager for the Fairbanks North Star Borough. The Salcha River, which reached its highest level...
...be used immediately to help residents of Salcha 35 miles south of Fairbanks with clean water and sanitation needs. Tim Biggane, borough emergency services coordinator, said high water may continue. Hills remain covered with snow and the area...
...ground floors of at least 50 and maybe more than 100 homes along the west side of the Richardson Highway near Mile 332. Tim Biggane, Fairbanks North Star Borough director of emergency operations, said the mile-long ice jam wedged into a shallow...
...upgrade some of the existing equipment we have, like breathing apparatus, even down to some turnout gear," said Tim Biggane, director of emergency operations for the Fairbanks North Star Borough. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
...roughly mile-long, 200-foot-wide jam in the Boondox Bar area remained and was likely to freeze in place, said Tim Biggane, director of emergency operations for the Fairbanks North Star Borough. Biggane has been monitoring the situation...
...officials. About 30 emergency workers and residents built a 1,300-foot long, 18-inch-high sandbag wall, said Tim Biggane, director of emergency services for the borough. The wall is atop a dike in an area on the Richardson Highway where...
...a United Airlines jet. The rest were cargo planes. Fairbanks passengers were housed at the Captain Bartlett Inn. Tim Biggane, borough emergency operations director, said only a few more hotel rooms were available if any more passenger planes...