A fire engulfed and ultimately destroyed four businesses and four apartments near downtown on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Photo by Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

After six months, the state fire marshall’s office has released a heavily redacted report of its investigation into the October fire that burned down commercial businesses and apartments in the Quick Shop complex. 

The fire started on Oct. 5 and emergency dispatchers were called just before 9:30 p.m.…

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...