It’s a long-standing joke that the sun is a foreign object in Southeast Alaska and that its appearance makes residents cower.
The joke came home last week when the Haines Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched following a call from a Main Street resident who mistook a sunrise for a “large fire on Third Avenue.”
Fire chief Scott Bradford said one fire truck responded to the resident’s call that came about 4 a.m. June 21. “Dispatch…
