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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 244 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 with a $10 million inventory. 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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From Boots to Keyboard
Alaska Native trades a wildland firefighting career for technology in support of fires Among the group of wildland firefighters that converged on the small Interior Alaska community of Allakaket in June to manage efforts on a cluster of fires burning… Read More ›
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BLM Alaska Fire Service offers basic wildland firefighting training to Job Corps students
(March 8, 2017) PALMER – Alaska Job Corps students got a taste of working on wildfires at a week-long basic wildland firefighting training class offered in the middle of the winter by the BLM Alaska Fire Service. The training, which… Read More ›
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BLM Alaska Fire Service, U.S. Army Alaska to Burn Debris Piles on Military Lands near Delta Junction
March 7, 2017 FAIRBANKS – The U. S. Army Alaska, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service, will burn piles of woody debris created in 2013 in the Donnelly Training Area (DTA) on the west side… Read More ›
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Army, BLM Alaska Fire Service fight fire danger with fire
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – A report released Dec. 15 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows that the likelihood of a severe fire season in Alaska, similar to 2015 when more than 5.1 million acres burned, has risen significantly… Read More ›
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BLM Alaska Fire Service, U.S. Army To Burn Debris Piles Near Delta Junction
Oct. 28, 2016 – Starting as early as Nov. 3, the BLM Alaska Fire Service and U.S. Army Alaska will be burning piles of woody debris created this summer during hazardous fuels reduction projects in the Donnelly Training Area (DTA)… Read More ›
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BLM AFS monitoring late season fire in the Northwest Arctic
Oct. 15, 2016 – The BLM Alaska Fire Service is monitoring a 350-acre fire that is burning five miles northeast of Noorvik in the Northwest Arctic. The Melvin Cannel fire was reported to the BLM AFS Galena Protection Zone on… Read More ›
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BLM AFS and U.S. Army Alaska Conduct Prescribed Burn in Yukon Training Area
Oct. 13, 2016 (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – Starting as early as Sunday, Oct. 16, the BLM Alaska Fire Service and U.S. Army Alaska will implement a prescribed fire in the Yukon Training Area, located approximately 35 miles east of Fairbanks. No… Read More ›
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BLM Alaska Fire Service, U.S. Army To Burn Debris Piles on Military Lands
Oct. 5, 2016 (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – The U. S. Army Alaska, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service, will be burning piles of woody debris created this summer during hazardous fuels reduction projects on the Fort… Read More ›
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Smokejumpers respond to fire near Koyuk
Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 – BLM Alaska Fire Service Smokejumpers are responding to a fire burning in tundra about two miles east of Koyuk. The fire was reported by villagers at approximately 1:30 p.m. today. Agency personnel flew over the fire… Read More ›
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Village crews help on Lower 48 fires
Sept. 2, 2016 – Five 20-person rural Alaska Emergency Firefighter (EFF) crews headed south late last week to help work on a handful of wildland fires burning in the Lower 48. Two crews from Chevak and one each from Hooper… Read More ›
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