A fire that destroyed a homeless encampment under the Brotherhood Bridge cast a pall of smoke over rush-hour traffic Friday evening, but no injuries were reported and a search for people staying at the site was unsuccessful, officials said.<\/p>\n
“It looked a lot worse than it was,” Dan Jager, assistant chief of operations for Capital City Fire\/Rescue said after the fire was knocked down at about 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
This is the second summer Juneau has had a “dispersed camping” policy, rather than an officially sanctioned campground for people experiencing homelessness. The Brotherhood Bridge is among many sites throughout town where people have been seen camping regularly.<\/p>\n
• Contact Mark Sabbatini at mark.sabbatini@juneauempire.com or (907) 957-2306.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A fire that destroyed a homeless encampment under the Brotherhood Bridge cast a pall of smoke over rush-hour traffic Friday evening, but no injuries were reported and a search for people staying at the site was unsuccessful, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":717,"featured_media":119512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1077],"tags":[93,96],"class_list":["post-119511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-top-news","tag-fire","tag-homelessness"],"yoast_head":"\n