More fires threaten Alaskan communities
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Lightning sparked nearly a dozen new wildfires in Alaska as firefighters struggled Wednesday to keep up with two major fires threatening rural highway communities.
Although firefighters are devoting most of their time and energy to a large fire in Willow and another on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage, it’s important to attack the new, smaller fires quickly.
USS Oklahoma remains to be ID’d
HONOLULU – Officials this month have started to exhume the unidentified remains of USS Oklahoma crew members killed in the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor as part of an effort to account for sailors and Marines still classified as missing.
Four caskets were dug up last week and six this week, said Gene Maestas, a spokesman for the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced the exhumations in April, saying advances in forensic science and genealogical help from families have made it possible to identify remains nearly 75 years after the attack.
Associated Press
