Areas of heat and visible smokes remain around the perimeter of the Lush Fire (#199) today. With the weather continuing into a warming and drying trend, more active fire behavior is anticipated.
Firefighters are continuing their work of indirect and direct line construction on the fire. They continue to improve the fuels breaks around the Native Alaska allotments. Once the fuel breaks have been completed, they will be plumbed with hose lays to protect the allotments. Sprinkler kids have been completed on all structures. As work is completed along the southern and eastern perimeters of the fire, resources will be moved around and further north to take action on other values at risk.
On Saturday, no heat within the fire perimeter was found near the cabins on the Elephant Fire (#225). Firefighters have completed their mission of completing protection measures on 27 structures in the area, and they have been pulled off of the fire. The fire will continue to be monitored with aviation resources.
Today, firefighters wrapped up their work on the Hay Fire (#257), located 49 miles southwest of Rampart. They have been working primarily on the eastern and western flanks of the fire, checking the perimeter for any areas of heat. This afternoon, the six smokejumpers were transported off of the fire and returned to Fairbanks where they await their next assignment.
This afternoon, the Dugan Fire (#354) was discovered approximately 20 miles east of Manley Hot Springs. Eight smokejumpers are currently on the fire. Overall, fire managers are monitoring 35 other fires in the Tanana Zone and will staff those fires if conditions warrant.
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The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (AFS) located at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, provides wildland fire suppression services for over 240 million acres of Department of the Interior and Native Corporation Lands in Alaska. In addition, AFS has other statewide responsibilities that include: interpretation of fire management policy; oversight of the BLM Alaska Aviation program; fuels management projects; and operating and maintaining advanced communication and computer systems such as the Alaska Lightning Detection System. AFS also maintains a National Incident Support Cache. The Alaska Fire Service provides wildland fire suppression services for America’s “Last Frontier” on an interagency basis with the State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, USDA Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Military in Alaska
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