America’s Best Hotel in Spenard is the scene of another structure fire. The Anchorage Fire Department had several units on location this morning. The photo above, posted on the Anchorage Road Conditions Facebook page, shows the fire raging.
In 2022, the hotel caught fire and a major portion of it was made unusable, with dozens of tenants displaced.
The hotel has been used to house homeless people in the past and the area around has become a vagrant hangout.
In 2020, former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz proposed buying the hotel to use as a homeless shelter, using CARES Act money that came available from the federal government during the Covid pandemic.
The Anchorage Fire Department reported it had had received multiple 9-1-1 reporting a fire in the abandoned building in the 4300 block of Spenard Road.
“Firefighters arrived on scene within minutes. They could see the flames engulfing part of the building and four individuals huddled on a balcony trapped by the fire. Firefighters quickly rescued all four of the individuals by using an aerial ladder truck and began efforts to extinguish the blaze. None of the rescued individuals reported any injuries to AFD personnel.
“Initially more than 30 firefighters responded. Shift change occurred while crews were on scene requiring them to swap out with the next shift. This is a large event that will require AFD personnel to be on scene much of the day. The cause and origin of the fire is under investigation,” the Fire Department said on Facebook. “Thank you to the Anchorage Police Department for showing up to secure the scene and having our back!”
Another example, trading success for failure. Using what was once a successful enterprise to imprison homeless people into a cycle of dependency where only the public sector unions benefit. There is nothing the Anchorage Assembly is involved in that doesn’t equate to human sacrifice. How’s you casino working out for you Mayor?
Even the Anchorage homeless are entitled to a little bonfire party. Was Ethan there?
Another addition to the homeless trail of destruction in Anchorage. Look at what happened to our formerly beautiful town square- our idiotic Assembly decided it was better to destroy the beautiful trees and landscaping rather than dealing with the homeless and/or druggies harassing and committing crimes against visitors and residents alike. Totally shameful!!!
Not only did they destroy what made Town Square Park beautiful, they want us to approve a bond measure to fix what they broke and make it beautiful again. As long as we have no system to deal with the homelessness and we look the other way when it comes to the drug dealers, junkies and sexual assaults, all the beautification our increased property taxes can handle won’t make Town Square Park or Anchorage beautiful again.
Not much mention in the press today of the dead homeless person they found in the woods at an encampment in Ruth Arcand Park off Abbott last night. Nor the APD and Chugach Electric asking people to be on the lookout for thieves stealing copper wire from electrical substations yesterday. This is Anchorage now, and it’s a damn shame.
LaFrance and her lap dogs on the Assembly are doing exactly what I figured they would do. They blamed Bronson for the homeless problem because it was convenient, taking no responsibility for their own mismanagement. LaFrance’s campaign was almost entirely built around correcting the homeless problem. Now that they have complete control of the Mayor’s office and Assembly, they’ve not only not fixed it but it’s gotten worse. And yet leftists around town complain about how “red” and “MAGA” Alaska is. This is on them. They enabled it. They own it. There is no one else to blame.
Americas Best Vagrant Hangout
LaFrance’s Anchorage.
Ain’t it great? Getting better everyday.
Wow, that wasn’t predictable. *eye roll*
Just an excuse to move them to a better Mark Begich owned hotel. And, I am sure the City will pay to have this one renovated. (Oh, and if I remember correctly, Begich is an owner of this hotel as well…)
Yea, just dump them all in Spenard…
Aren’t commercial buildings supposed to have sprinkler systems in place to prevent this? If so, what the good are sprinkler systems if they don’t actually work?
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