No injuries have been reported in the collapse of a commercial building at Sixth Avenue and Ingra Street that houses the FashionPact store near downtown. Anchorage drivers can expect road closures in the area.
A commercial building on the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Ingra Street collapsed Saturday morning, March 4, 2023, near downtown Anchorage. No one was reported injured, according to assistant fire chief Alex Boyd.
The collapse occurred around 7:30 a.m., said Assistant Fire Chief Alex Boyd with the Anchorage Fire Department. The single-story building, located on the northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and Ingra Street, houses the FashionPact thrift store, which is adjacent to an RV rental business.No one was in the building and the businesses were closed when the collapse happened, Boyd said. He said no one has been reported missing or injured.
Boyd said that some of the road closures are in place “in order to protect the public from possible secondary wall collapse.”
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