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The fire department said the incidents should remind building owners to evaluate the amount of snow and ice on roofs.

Anchorage police and fire officials say they’re hampered by a tight labor market, limited budgets and recruitment barriers that extend outside of their departments. But critics say they could be doing more.

Both Anchorage’s fire and police departments have been sued for racial discrimination.

Anchorage officials are again asking people, businesses and medical providers to donate protective equipment “immediately,” including homemade masks, because of a shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Anchorage is anticipating hundreds more homeless in the days and weeks ahead, taxing local emergency response resources and organizations.

The Campbell Park Fire was first reported Tuesday afternoon and quickly grew to 15 acres, causing a small evacuation effort. By about 8 p.m, an Anchorage official said crews were confident they had the fire largely under control.

The municipality of Anchorage has paid one of its firefighters more than three-quarter million dollars after his successful lawsuit against the fire department.

Naloxone — a medication that rapidly reverses the effects of an opioid overdose — has long been used by emergency medics, but now it’s being deployed to police departments and non-profits at the front line of the state’s opioid crisis. Even with millions of new federal dollars being spent, the demand in outpacing the supply.