Fire Damages East Side Apartment

An early morning fire caused minor damage to an East Anchorage Apartment building at 1450 Northview Drive on May 9, 2007.  The Anchorage Fire Department Dispatch Center received a 911 call at 12:46 a.m. reporting the exterior wall of a multi-unit apartment building on fire.  Fourteen units were initially dispatched to the fire and first arriving units from the Muldoon/Patterson Fire Station reported smoke showing from the eves.  The crew quickly pulled an attack line and entered the structure finding that the fire had not breached the exterior wall.  A Working Fire was called and as additional crews arrived they began to remove the exterior siding to extinguish the blaze.  The fire was called under control within fifteen minutes.

Damage was contained to the exterior of the structure, causing approximately $10,000 in damage.  Fire officials determined the blaze was started by exterior light fixtures covered by paper as the building was being prepped for painting.  The heat from the light fixture ignited the paper that went unnoticed until the exterior wood began to burn.  There were no fire ground injuries and no one was displaced by the fire.