The Anchorage Fire Department was responding Wednesday morning to a blaze in a vacant restaurant building on East Fireweed Lane.
Anchorage firefighters respond to a fire at the vacant China Garden building on Fireweed Lane on June 22, 2022.
Firefighters were called to the building that once housed the China Garden restaurant at 6:17 a.m., said Assistant Chief Alex Boyd. The building was “well involved” with flames when the first crews arrived about five minutes later. Fourteen units were on scene by 7:30 a.m. It wasn’t safe for firefighters to enter the building, making it difficult to control the blaze quickly, Boyd said. Dark smoke still billowed from the sagging roof about two hours after the fire began.There was no indication that anyone was inside the structure, Boyd said, and it’s unclear how the fire started.
The building has been the site of a number of fires in recent years, he said. Firefighters spent several hoursFlames shoot through the roof at the vacant China Garden Building on Fireweed Lane on June 22, 2022. Anchorage firefighters respond to a fire at the vacant China Garden building on Fireweed Lane on June 22, 2022. Tess Williams is a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, focusing on breaking news. Before joining the ADN in 2019, she was a reporter for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota and previously helped cover the Nebraska Legislature for The Associated Press. Contact her at [email protected].
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