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| | Relief Assistance Sought for Hooper Bay, Alaska - Evangelical Covenant Church |
 | | HOOPER BAY, AK (August 4, 2006) - Hooper Bay Covenant Church has escaped damage from a sweeping fire that has devastated this small remote Alaskan village, destroying the elementary and high schools, one of the village’s two businesses, and more than a dozen homes, Covenant News Service has learned. |
 | | Hooper Bay Pastor Grant Funk and his family are reported to be safe, but could not be immediately reached for comment. |
 | | Firefighters from Hooper Bay and the neighboring villages of Chevak and Scammon Bay battled the blaze with hoses and pumps set up in ponds and the help of firefighting equipment, flown in from other parts of the state. |
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