Juneau streets were blocked most of Sunday to contain an early morning fire believed to have started in a Juneau residence and spread to the historic Holy Trinity Episcopal Church just three blocks from the Capitol.The report was received by the fire department at 4:40 a.m. and fire fighters were still containing the fire at 2:00 p.m.
Their first responce was to put the fire out but the intensity of the blaze changed to defensive tactics to save the homes and buildings within blocks of the fire.
Del Moss, treasurer for District 11, awoke at 6:00 a.m. to what appeared to be an explosion. He was across the channel from the fire but the blaze was visible from several miles away.
Power was out in a wide area for quite some time although the cause is not known.
One reason could be that a panel from the aluminum roof of the church blasted off the roof and landed straddled to the power line.
By 930 a.m. debris from the defensive actions to save surrounding buildings was at the intersection within feet of the Baranof Hotel.A staffer for Senator Seekins wondered why his vehicle had debris on and around it this morning, unaware of t
he fire. This is a picture of Holy Trinity in 1960.
The blessing of this disaster is that Holy Trinity received a grant in 2005 to restore six near-life-sized paintings of Jesus painted in the 1906 circa and the paintings are scheduled to be returned next week.
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