01/13/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/13/2025 23:07
The Municipality of Anchorage, supported by our partners at Red Cross and Salvation Army, will open a Temporary Reception Center to assist those still without power from Sunday's extreme weather event. This resource will be available tonight at 8pm at Spenard Recreation Center, at 2020 West 48th Avenue.
Hot drinks and small snacks will be available. Visitors are encouraged to bring phone chargers, other convivence items and necessary hygiene items. The bathrooms will be available as well as tables and chairs and places for families to relax together. Pets will not be allowed inside the Temporary Reception Center.
Additionally, the adult entrance fees will be waived at Fairview Recreation Center and Spenard Recreation Center during normal business hours tomorrow from 10am-8pm. The facilities offer convenience services such as the ability to charge your phone, a place to warm up, and an area for kids to play indoors.
The warming center located at 545 E. 4th Avenue will have extended hours on Monday, January 13 and Tuesday, January 14. It will open both days at 4pm.
Solid Waste Services will support clean-up efforts by providing free disposal services for wood items such as: brush and branches, cut trees less than 6 ft long, lumber and wood fence post, clean tree stumps. This material will be sent through a shredder, and materials cannot have metal and/or concrete.
These services will be available January 14 through January 31 at the Anchorage Regional Landfill Wood Lot at 15500 E. Hillside Drive, Eagle Rive, from 7:30am-5pm and Central Transfer Station Central Wood Lot, 1208 E. 56th Avenue from 10am-4:30pm, look for the "Central Wood Lot" signs.
Municipal Manager Windt Pearson encourages residents to use the Hazard Tree App to report downed trees on municipal land. Parks & Recreation responds to these reports and removes the trees on municipal land.
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