New shipping containers include a temporary morgue

 

April 23, 2020

Melissa Ganey

These connexes caused a stir on social media last month after some residents thought they were all for storing dead bodies. One was purchased as a temporary morgue and the others are to store Haines Volunteer Fire Department supplies.

The Haines Borough has purchased three shipping containers-two for storing search and rescue and wildland fire fighting supplies, and the other as a temporary morgue.

The borough ordered the containers in January to store emergency supplies and e...



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