Firefighters: Remembering firefighters who have died
Arlo Brees passed July 5, 2018. Arlo Brees has been a Fairbanksan since he arrived in March 1948 with his parents, Marvin and Dorothy Brees, from Osakis, Minnesota, 120 miles west of Minneapolis and 120 miles east of Fargo, North Dakota. After high school, he worked on construction jobs as a cement mason until September 1959, when he applied at the Fire Department. He left in 1961 to work as a fireman for Boeing in Washington, then for a contractor on Christmas Island, where the federal...
