FAIRBANKS — A fire destroyed a home and business in Rosie Creek early Sunday morning.
No one was hurt in the fire, which spread to a few nearby trees but was otherwise limited to the structure, which was destroyed, said Jack Willard, chief for Chena Goldstream Fire and Rescue.
Fire crews from Chena Goldstream left for the house, which online records indicate was also a place of business for construction-services firm Alaska Resources Inc. at just before 2 a.m. Sunday, Willard said. They were later joined by volunteer firefighters from around Fairbanks, but there was no saving the house, which he said was used as a summer-only home and business.
“It was a total loss,” he said.
Willard said fire officials hadn’t figured out, as of Monday, what might have caused the blaze.
The address where the fire occurred, on Rosie Creek Road, is listed in phone records as home to a construction services company. The owners ran it as a summer business, Willard said, and had yet to arrive from their winter home outside Alaska.
“They were due next week,” he said.
Willard said fire crews from the University Fire Department, originally, and mistakenly, responded to the scene after a neighbor reported seeing a column of smoke early Sunday morning. Firefighters realized the fire was outside their jurisdiction and called the Chena Goldstream department, which simultaneously got a call from another neighbor, he said.
The fire was hot enough to melt some trim on nearby cars and slightly damage nearby construction equipment, Willard said
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