Other - Retail, Retail Fairbanks, AK – Fire at Michaels craft store suppressed by sprinkler system September 6, 2016 viking210 If you drove by the Michaels arts and crafts store in the Bentley Mall this (Tue) morning, not much looked out of the ordinary. But if you tried to go in, you found the store closed, with a sign on the door saying there had been a fire in the business. Fairbanks Firefighters got the call at 6-30 Monday evening, and arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the building, and a fire at the end of one of the aisles. The origin and cause of the fire are currently under investigation by the Fairbanks Fire Marshals. Kyle Green, FFD Deputy Fire Marshal, told us “We arrived on scene to find the building full of smoke. The store and the mall were evacuated. Crews made entry and found a fire in the store that was being suppressed by the sprinkler system pretty well. We had to finish extinguishing it. We did so and then we spent quite a bit of time ejecting smoke from the building and mitigating further damage. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation. Michaels is busy right now getting in touch with their folks to come up and assess what we’re looking at for damage.”
