Dee Dee Ivanoff is from St. Mary’s, and she's the first Yup’ik superintendent of the St. Mary’s School District. “I feel I have a sense of responsibility for this community. These are my kids, these are my parents,” she said.
School Superintendent Dee Dee Ivanoff steps out of her white pickup truck at the St. Mary’s airport. She’s here to shuttle fire personnel to the school, where they’re sleeping and working out of a makeshift headquarters. She’s become one of their main drivers.
— and the different responding organizations, overseeing donations and helping with evacuation plans. She’s also helped agencies rent trucks from locals who evacuated. The North Star Fire Crew clears brush around power poles on the road between St. Mary’s and Pitka’s Point on June 11, 2022. The crew is made up of firefighters in training from around the country.
Rene Paukan and Sylvia Nerby are helping to organize water distribution for St. Mary’s residents and meals for firefighters. Ivanoff is one of many people in the community who are leading local response efforts. She’s been working closely with her sister, the director of the subregional clinic, and St. Mary’s mayor. They’ve all been helping out with evacuations and food and water donations. She calls one of them at the end of a busy day to reflect.
Scumpy is the mayor of St. Mary’s. His real name is Sven Paukan. He’s been helping deliver bottled water to other communities impacted by the fire.
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