On back-to-back days, two cars in Juneau caught on fire in unrelated incidents, Capital City Fire/Rescue officials say.
The first fire happened at about 2 a.m. Tuesday, according to a CCFR press release, in the 300 block of Village Street downtown. A 1991 Chevrolet S-10 pickup was “engulfed in flames,” the release states, but there were no injuries reported. Fire marshals say they deemed the car, which was not insured, a total loss.
The cause of the fire was likely smoking-related, fire marshals say, and there was also slight heat damage to a nearby fence and a car parked nearby.
At about 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, according to the release, CCFR got a very similar call, for a pickup truck on fire in the 9400 block of La Perouse Avenue in the Mendenhall Valley. When responders arrived, they found flames coming from a 1999 Toyota Tacoma, which was parked just four feet away from a 20-unit apartment complex, fire marshals say.