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The U.S. Wildland Fire Service in Alaska (USWFS) is located at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, provides wildland fire suppression services for over 244 million acres of Department of the Interior and Native Corporation Lands in Alaska. In addition, USWFS 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 U.S. Wildland Fire Service in Alaska provides wildland fire suppression services for America’s “Last Frontier” on an interagency basis with the State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry & Fire Protection, U.S. 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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Firefighters continue to wrap things up on fires as conditions moderate
Fire activity has moderated throughout much of Alaska thanks to a combination of decreased lightning activity and scattered showers in many places. While some places received wetting rain, others, such as Central Interior Alaska, remain dry and will likely stay… Read More ›
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Firefighters remain on a handful of fires as work wraps up on others
Firefighters are wrapping up work on multiple fires as conditions are starting to moderate in many parts of the state. Of the 11 fires staffed on Saturday morning, seven are expected to see firefighters finish their work and head home… Read More ›
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Interior Alaska communities may see smoke from multiple fires
Interior communities may see smoke drifting from multiple fires across Central Alaska Saturday afternoon. People in Fairbanks may have noticed a haze Saturday morning. The air quality may worsen in the afternoon as fire activity typically picks up. Wildfire smoke… Read More ›
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Suppression efforts knock down fires burning near Lake Minchumina, Wein Lake
Aided by retardant and water drops, smokejumpers were able knock down two fires burning 50 miles apart near Lake Minchumina and Wein Lake in Interior Alaska. The Minchumina Fire (#213), burning on the southwest side of the Interior lake was… Read More ›
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BLM AFS working on fire 22 miles northwest of Fort Yukon
The BLM Alaska Fire Service is working on a 15-acre fire burning 22 miles northwest of Fort Yukon. On Wednesday, a load of eight smokejumpers, two water-scooping Fire Bosses and an air attack airplane used to coordinate the fire suppression… Read More ›
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BLM AFS mopping up trio of fires; monitoring many others
BLM Alaska Fire Service firefighters are mopping up a trio of fires Wednesday including one that had threatened Huslia Tuesday evening. Lightning continues to be the main component of new fire starts for the past three days. There were 28… Read More ›
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Firefighters battling fire threatening Huslia
The BLM Alaska Fire Service is busy battling a fire threatening the village of Huslia. The Long Lake Fire (#150) was spotted at 4:34 p.m. Tuesday by a BLM AFS firefighter aboard an aircraft shuttling supplies and personnel from Galena… Read More ›
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BLM AFS busy with fires across northern Alaska
BLM Alaska Fire Service personnel are working on four fires spread from one end of the state of the other. After spending roughly five hours traveling about 575 miles Monday evening to reach the Tusikpak Lake Fire (#116) burning near… Read More ›
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Smokejumpers enroute to 2,000-acre tundra fire near Point Hope
Smokejumpers are enroute to a tundra grass fire that has burned an estimated 2,000 acres about 16 miles east of Point Hope. The load of eight smokejumpers was sent to the Tusikpak Lake Fire (#116) that is burning in a modified… Read More ›
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Smokejumpers attack fire near Livengood for first fire jump of season
A pair of Alaska smokejumpers logged the first fire jump of the season Friday on a small fire burning close to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline about five miles southwest of Livengood. The Ready Bullion Creek Fire (#103) was reported to the Division… Read More ›
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