[Juneau man stunned by loss of home, community support]<\/a><\/ins><\/p>\n“Thank you everyone so much. Yesterday I was in total shock and thought I was straight up done for,” Mitchem wrote in response to the outpouring of donations. “Standing in front of the wreckage, it felt like something right out of a movie. It was unreal. What it looked like was what I felt like inside.”<\/p>\n
Mattice said all power has been restored to the houses that did not sustain damage from the event, but said there are one or two houses surrounding the main area of damage that are still without power.<\/p>\n
As for what will happen about the debris and damage that still exists just feet away from the road, Mattice said it is not the city’s responsibility and it is in the hands of the private owners to be dealt with.<\/p>\n
“CBJ does not go on private property to solve private issues,” Mattice said. “It’s private property, it’s debris on their property.”<\/p>\n
He said it’s important for residents in Juneau to recognize the significant amount of hazard areas that exist in the borough, and said he urges people to make sure they understand and are prepared for the risk associated with living near or in those areas.<\/p>\n
“It’s unfortunate that in Juneau that we have a lot of hazard areas in Juneau and it’s important for people who live in that area to be aware of those hazards and deal with their own circumstances and be prepared to do what they need to do should the hazard arise,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We want people to recognize there is always hazard and threat and risk from time to time and we hope people are paying attention and making educated decisions on their own.”<\/p>\n
Lionel Brown, a resident who lives in an apartment complex nearby, was walking up Gastineau Avenue Thursday morning after grabbing a beverage downtown. He said it was a normal routine to walk down the street most mornings, but had to change his route for a while cleanup was underway.<\/p>\n
Brown said he was a part of the group of residents who received aid from the Red Cross, which teamed up with Capital City Fire\/Rescue to set up a temporary evacuation center at CCFR Station 1 downtown.<\/p>\n
According to Taylar Sausen, Red Cross regional communications director, the temporary shelter provided to residents was only open on the night of the slide but said Red Cross continues to provide aid to residents affected by the event.<\/p>\n
“We are here to make sure there isn’t anything more that they need from us and work with to aid them in their recovery process,” she said.<\/p>\n
She said some of the assistance that they offered included a financial contribution to families in the recovery process, providing damage assessment of their homes and in some circumstances providing additional financial assistance beyond the initial contribution.<\/p>\n
“We walked them through the process, and we’re still in the process of helping them,” she said.<\/p>\n
Sausen said she encourages residents who might have been impacted by the slide but did not reach out initially to the Red Cross to do so and talk with officials about possible recovery aid.<\/p>\n
• Contact reporter Clarise Larson at clarise.larson@juneauempire.com or (651)-528-1807. Follow her on Twitter at @clariselarson.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remaining debris is in the hands of property owners, according to city officials. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":890,"featured_media":91857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[765,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-91856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-city-and-borough-of-juneau","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91856"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=91856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}