Late Monday night, a Haines dispatcher got a call that a vehicle was on fire at 30 Mile of the highway. The caller hung up so the dispatcher was not able to confirm basic details. So, they assumed it was the Haines Highway and sounded the alarm for volunteers to respond. 

It was nearly midnight and firefighters scrambled to meet at the Haines’ public safety building to gear up. But as it turns out,…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...