Children playing with fireworks start fire that burns home

Published 8:01 am Tuesday, September 27, 2016

TETLIN — A fire that burned down a home in an interior Alaska village is being blamed on children playing with fireworks.

Alaska State Troopers just after 5 p.m. Sunday received a report of a fire at a home in Tetlin.

Division of Forestry responders in Tok extinguished the fire.

The home was destroyed.

Tetlin is 20 miles southeast of Tok.