Due to increased fire activity brought on by the chinook winds, Interior Alaska is experiencing near hazardous conditions. Air quality advisories are in effect for central and eastern Alaska. Chinook winds are bringing Red Flag conditions again today to the Alaska Range, the Delta Junction area, and the Parks Highway south of Nenana. Those winds will spread Red Flag conditions north to Nenana and Fairbanks areas this afternoon. This includes the communities of Tanana, Anderson, Healy, Fairbanks, Delta Junction and Salcha. Five Type 2 hand crews are arriving into Fairbanks today. Following an inbriefing, the crews will be assigned to priority fires in the Interior. There are currently 152 active fires: 53 in critical or full protection and 95 in limited management zones. 80,169 acres have burned statewide.
HIGHLIGHTED FIRE ACTIVITY
Lost Horse Creek (#296) – [3,979 acres] North of Old Murphy Dome Road, 3.5 miles east of Mile 18 Elliot Highway. Dozers continue to work on the control line that is holding between the fire and the Haystack subdivision. Crews continue to extend the line to the east toward the Caribou Creek drainage as the fire burns northeast into the 2021 Haystack Fire scar. Fairbanks North Star Borough issued a GO! evacuation notice for Upper Haystack area. (127 Personnel)
Anderson Complex (#899) – [11,268 acres] Anderson-Clear area. With Red Flag conditions the Shores Landing (#325) and Birch Creek (#285) were the most active of the six fires in the complex. Shores Landing made a push to the northwest and is now estimated to be within a half mile of the Teklanika River. Resources continue to assess values at risk and implement structure and point protection. Evacuation levels remain in place from the Denali Borough. (270 personnel)
McCoy Creek (#201) – [9,000 acres] River mile 29, Salcha River. DOF personnel and other crews including a Fairbanks-based contract crew continued structure protection along the Salcha River and worked to prevent the northern edge from spreading. Aviation resources continue to support crews and evacuation levels remain in place from the Fairbanks North Star Borough. (102 personnel)
Pogo Mine Road (#191) – [20,000 acres] 9 miles down Pogo Road. The fire merged with 6 Mile Pogo (#196) and is now established north of the Pogo Road. Resources including the Tanana Chief Crew focused on structure preparation along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Low visibility limited the use of aerial resources. (25 personnel)
Sand Lake (#261) – [47 acres] 6 miles northwest of Dot Lake. Staffed with a Type 2 crew and module of firefighters from Southwest Alaska. The crew reinforced the anchor point and continued to establish saw line and hose lays on west flank to prevent further growth to the north and west. Resources patrolled and monitored the south and east to hold established lines. (38 personnel)
MAPS:
Map of the Lost Horse Creek Fire as of the evening of August 6, 2023. 
Shaw Creek Flats area fires north of Big Delta including Pogo Mine Road (#191), Keystone Creek (#217), and Shaw Creek Flats (#214), and Corda Creek (#308) as of August 6. For a downloadable map, click here. 
Area map of the Olnes Pond (#250), Sargent Creek (#255), Treasure Creek (#265), Our Creek (#271), Lost Horse Creek (#296), and Murphy Creek (#320) fires north of Fairbanks on August 6. For a downloadable map, click here. 
Map of McCoy Creek Fire (#201) and Mosquito Creek Fire (#290) as of August 6. 
Map of fire activity in the Northern Region as of August 6. 
Map of fire activity in the Alaskan Interior as of August 6. 
Map of Sand Lake Fire (#261) as of August 6.
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