NAPAKIAK, Alaska—An early morning fire at an Alaska jail killed two inmates and seriously injured a guard who was trying to release them, officials said. Authorities did not immediately identify the victims of the fire Sunday in the village of Napakiak in southwest Alaska, the Anchorage Daily News reported Sunday. Alaska State Troopers received a report around 1:30 a.m. that the jailhouse was “engulfed in flames” and that two prisoners inside their cells “were not able to get free” of their cells. The injured guard was flown out of the community by a medivac helicopter. Aspects of the fire remain under question, including who operated the jail in the village of about 380 people southwest of Bethel, the newspaper reported.

Source: thestar April 28, 2019 22:56 UTC