A child was found dead in a Fairbanks residence that burned Monday. Alaska State Troopers report that the two-year-old girl was in a bedroom of a mobile home in Gold Rush Estates that burned in the early morning hours of January 7th.
Troopers say a man and a woman were able escape the fire without injury.
The child’s body has been sent to the state medical examiner for autopsy. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.