1:07
Speaker A
6:03 - 7:10
"he finally said, "Believe she's gone." One week later, then I had— my mom was in town and my friends were kind of surrounding me to keep an eye on me after Kathleen had passed and came down to the cabin to just get some quiet time. While we were down here, the Funny River Fire was getting closer and closer"
“he finally said, "Believe she's gone." One week later, then I had— my mom was in town and my friends were kind of surrounding me to keep an eye on me after Kathleen had passed and came down to the cabin to just get some quiet time. While we were down here, the Funny River Fire was getting closer and closer”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 6:03 – 7:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kenai Peninsula
- Captured at
- June 15, 2026
From the transcript
Eric helped me work on her for a little bit, and he— he finally said, "Believe she's gone." One week later, then I had— my mom was in town and my friends were kind of surrounding me to keep an eye on me after Kathleen had passed and came down to the cabin to just get some quiet time. While we were down here, the Funny River Fire was getting closer and closer to the point that it took action. In southern Alaska today, a wind-whipped fire has burned nearly 250 square miles in the Kenai Peninsula. CNN reports officials have now ordered evacuations of 1,000 structures in the area after authorities worried about the safety of people traveling for the Memorial Day weekend. So I had friends bringing pumps down, and I was saturating the ground pretty well.
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