COOPER LANDING — A late-night fire ripped through a multi-story structure in Cooper Landing early Friday morning, prompting a wide-ranging emergency response and threatening nearby structures and wildland.

According to Cooper Landing Emergency Services (CLES), crews were dispatched just after 12:30 a.m. to find the residence fully engulfed in flames, with the fire actively spreading to adjacent buildings and surrounding vegetation. Thanks to swift action, all occupants escaped unharmed — including the homeowners’ flock of chickens.

Multiple agencies joined the effort to battle the blaze, including Central Emergency Services, Moose Pass Volunteer Fire Company, Seward Volunteer Ambulance Corps, Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection, U.S. Forest Service – Chugach National Forest, Al

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