2-year-old dies in Fairbanks mobile home fire

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.

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Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.

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