Cause of deadly Anchorage apartment fire still under investigation

Thursday, February 16, 2017 [Alaska News]( [Obituaries]( [Politics]( [Outdoors]( [Opinions]( [Sports]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cause of deadly Anchorage apartment fire still under investigation]( Investigators with the ATF were traveling to Alaska from the Lower 48 Thursday to assist local fire investigators in establishing the cause of the fatal apartment fire Wednesday. [Annie Zak]( ['The fire was above our heads': Survivors recount frantic escape from apartments]( "I woke up, I heard screaming, I opened the door -- I saw flames stretching all along the hallway," said one man who fled a burning apartment building early Wednesday. [Chris Klint]( [Photos: Apartment fire kills 2, displaces dozens]( Two people died, 16 were injured and dozens were displaced in a fast-spreading fire early Wednesday. Alaska Dispatch News [Alarm system at fire-destroyed building was up to code, city says]( The Spenard building didn't have sprinklers — but they weren’t required, an official said. [Devin Kelly]( [Trump says 'I inherited a mess,' blasts media, detractors at combative news conference]( President Donald Trump on Thursday aired his grievances against the news media, the intelligence community and his detractors generally in a sprawling, stream-of-consciousness news conference that alternated between claims that he had "inherited a mess" and the assertion that his fledgling administration "is running like a fine-tuned machine." Ashley Parker, The Washington Post [Cook Inletkeeper to sue Hilcorp over gas pipeline leak]( [Alex DeMarban]( [Lawmaker: State cash better spent on prosecutors than on victim advocates]( [Nathaniel Herz]( [Accused sex trafficker targeted and terrorized Alaska Native teens, prosecutor says]( [Julia O'Malley]( [Alaska governor declares opioid abuse public health disaster]( [Michelle Theriault Boots]( [Chefs from 229 Parks, Fire Island bakery snag prestigious James Beard award nominations]( [Suzanna Caldwell]( © 2016 Alaska Dispatch Publishing. All rights reserved. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Alaska Dispatch · 300 W. 31st Ave. · Anchorage, AK 99503 · USA