Nome’s Polaris Hotel on Fire; Blaze Continues Into Afternoon; One Person Unaccounted-For
![One Nome firefighter hoses down the Polaris Hotel on Tuesday morning after fire has been burning for more than 6 hours. Photo Credit: Davis Hovey, KNOM (2017)](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Polaris-Hotel-Fire-1200x900.jpg)
Nome Fire Chief Jim West, Jr., and his crew are all safe after fighting a Polaris Hotel fire for six hours, but reportedly, at least one person, who could still be inside Polaris, is unaccounted for. The identity of the missing person is not being released at this time.