It was a chaotic weekend at North Star hospital, a locked East Anchorage psychiatric facility for children, with patients escaping, damage to the building and five police responses in two days.
Boarded-up door and broken glass at North Star Hospital visible from sidewalk along DeBarr Road on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022.
On Monday, a boarded-up exterior door was visible from the street. Glass remnants were visible in the door frame and scattered on the sidewalk. Anchorage Police Department records show officers were called to the hospital five times from Friday to Sunday, with each visit resulting in a police report. Police arrived at 11:15 p.m. because two patients “had run away” from the hospital, according to the summary. The two surfaced at the Huffman Carrs grocery just before 10 a.m. the next day, some 13 hours later and 8.5 miles away from the DeBarr Road hospital, according to police. No one was arrested.
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