As Community Safety Director for the Borough, I requested a Presidential Disaster Declaration due to the cold (yeah, in Alaska, in the wintertime), but it was miserable. Things were breaking all over; many a whole lot more serious than the inconvenient fan belt breaking. Water, sewer lines, wells were freezing, the utilities were working overtime to keep the power on, and some people were evacuating from their frozen homes. The Army was out on their annual winter games when a Canadian C-130 came in short of the Ft. Wainwright runway and its belly hit the bank of the Chena River. The plane broke into 3 major pieces, but it was so cold, the diesel jet fuel didn't atomize on impact to explode, as it normally does in a crash. Therefor half of the soldiers on board survived. Bill Shechter took the command van/hazmat response truck out to the runway 3days. There were bodies laying on the runway for over a day during investigations. Many responders were injured by the -70° cold on the runway.