The villages of Fort Yukon, Venetie, Arctic Village, Selawik, Minto and Tanana were added to the schedule of mobile medical exams for federal emergency firefighters (EFF) in rural Alaska. The additions to the schedule are (click on links for request forms): Selawik: Dec. 3 (Deadline to turn in Exam Request Form – Kobuk River form […]
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Villages added to federal EFF medical exam schedule
November 8, 2018 
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BLM AFS, U.S. Army to burn debris piles on military lands south of Delta Junction
October 23, 2018 Comments Off on BLM AFS, U.S. Army to burn debris piles on military lands south of Delta Junction
The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Alaska (USARAK), will be burning piles of woody debris on the Donnelly Training Area south of Delta Junction and the Gerstle River Training Area southeast of Delta Junction. Burning operations may start as early as Friday, Oct. 26 and […]
Continue reading AFS emergency firefighters to undergo medical exams starting in November
October 19, 2018 Comments Off on AFS emergency firefighters to undergo medical exams starting in November
The BLM Alaska Fire Service, in partnership with the Department of Interior Medical Standards Program (DOI MSP), will soon deliver medical exams to federal emergency firefighters. The goal of the exams is to increase safety by identifying pre-existing conditions that could be aggravated by the arduous duty of wildland firefighting. The medical exams will be […]
Continue reading BLM AFS, USARAK to burn debris piles on military lands
September 24, 2018 Comments Off on BLM AFS, USARAK to burn debris piles on military lands
The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (BLM AFS), in cooperation with the U.S. Army Alaska (USARAK), will burn piles of woody debris on the Fort Wainwright Main Post and the Yukon Training Area east of Fairbanks. Burning operations will start as early as Thursday, Sept. 27 and may continue, as conditions allow, until […]
Continue reading EFF crews head south to help with busy fire season
August 5, 2018 Comments Off on EFF crews head south to help with busy fire season
Four Type 2 Emergency Firefighter crews said goodbye to Alaska and its cloudy, rainy skies Sunday morning and headed to the heat of the Lower 48 to help with a busy fire season. The crews from Fairbanks and numerous rural villages boarded a plane bound for Spokane, Wash. where they will then be bussed to […]
Continue readingType 2 EFF crews to mobilize to help fight fires in Lower 48
August 3, 2018 Comments Off on Type 2 EFF crews to mobilize to help fight fires in Lower 48
Four Type 2 Emergency Firefighter crews will mobilize to the Lower 48 on Sunday to help with the busy fire season. The crews with 19 firefighters apiece from Fairbanks and rural villages will board a plane in Fairbanks on Sunday bound for Idaho before being assigned to wildland fires in the area. As it has […]
Continue readingWetter, colder weather on the way for many BLM AFS fires
August 1, 2018 Comments Off on Wetter, colder weather on the way for many BLM AFS fires
After another hot and dry spell that stoked fire activity on existing fires, a cooler and wetter weather has moved into most of the state that will hopefully help moderate fire behavior and help firefighters working on BLM Alaska Fire Service’s staffed fires. The Eastern Interior parts of the state may miss most of the […]
Continue reading16 smokejumpers now working on fire near Hughes
July 27, 2018 Comments Off on 16 smokejumpers now working on fire near Hughes
Eight smokejumpers were added today to help the eight already working on the 25-acre Hughes Mountain Fire (#363) burning about four miles west of Hughes since Tuesday. The original eight smokejumpers made good progress cutting saw line from the head of the fire to both the left and right flanks yesterday. Two water-scooping Fire Boss […]
Continue readingWork continues on BLM AFS staffed fires
July 26, 2018 Comments Off on Work continues on BLM AFS staffed fires
The high pressure that brought warm and dry conditions to many of the fires in the past few days is moving off to the east in Canada, resulting in slightly cooler weather and even some rain in parts of Alaska. As good as that sounds, the Eastern Interior where two of the state’s staffed fires […]
Continue readingWork continues on fires as Alaska experiences highest fire danger of the year
July 25, 2018 Comments Off on Work continues on fires as Alaska experiences highest fire danger of the year
Work continues on four staffed fires as the state continues to experience the highest fire danger so far this year. Temperatures are predicted to cool by a couple of degrees and humidity levels are expected to tick up a bit in the upcoming days and moderate by the weekend with the warmest temperatures remaining in […]
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