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HOOPER BAY, AK (August 9, 2006) \u2013 The pastor of the Hooper Bay Covenant Church says people of this small village face food and housing shortages following a fire that swept through the area last week.
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Seventeen houses as well as fish stored to feed villagers through the bitter winter were wiped out, says Hooper Bay Covenant Pastor Grant Funk. Also destroyed were fishing nets and canvas tents in which people stay while picking berries that also are an important source of the food supply.<\/p>\n

The fire started in the elementary school, which was destroyed. People could do nothing but watch the flames spread because they didn\u2019t have equipment to fight the fire, Funk says. Pumps brought in from other area villages were used to hose down fuel storage tanks which were scorched. To read an earlier account of the fire, please see Hooper Bay Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute miracle that those fuel tanks weren\u2019t destroyed,\u201d says John Wenrich, the Evangelical Covenant Church\u2019s director of church revitalization. He had been vacationing and working on projects at Alaska Christian College, but traveled to Hooper Bay when he heard of the fire.<\/p>\n

Wenrich rode on one of two airplanes provided by Mission Aviation and Repair Center that brought in 9,000 pounds of water that was needed until local officials can determine whether the fire contaminated the lakes that provide the village with water.<\/p><\/div>\n

To see additional photos taken during the fire last week, please see Fire Rages<\/a>. To see photos showing the aftermath of the devastating fire, please see A Big Job Ahead<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The remote village is located on the Bering Sea and accessible only by airplane. \u201cI can\u2019t even explain to you how isolated this village is,\u201d says Wenrich. \u201cIt\u2019s a really hard life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The village has no water, and although there is a well, most of the villagers draw water by cutting ice from the local ponds and lakes, Funk says. A sanitary sewer system also is not available, forcing people to use five-gallon buckets as toilets.<\/p>\n

Living conditions have further hardened because the village already suffers a housing shortage. The fire displaced between 60 and 80 people who have been forced to live with others in the village.<\/p>\n

Funk hopes new homes can be built by the end of October, before the weather becomes almost unbearable. The organization Samaritan\u2019s Purse already has said it will fund construction of five homes.<\/p>\n

Logistics will make reconstruction difficult, Funk says. \u201cGetting materials in will be expensive.\u201d He also will need 10 carpenters who are willing to live in primitive conditions. \u201cWe\u2019re not the Hilton here,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

Funk says meetings over the next few days will help clarify how villagers will address the future, including providing education for the children. Despite the loss of property and food supplies, residents are upbeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one was injured or killed,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

If carpenters are interested in helping, Funk says they should mail a resume to him at Box 237, Hooper Bay, AK, 99604.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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