Alaska Team’s Operations Planning Section Chief, Jason Devcich with todays Operational Update for the #HaystackFire Fire Size: 897 acres Containment: 30% Total Personnel: 136 Start Date: 06/14/2021 Cause: Lightning Location: 18 miles N of Fairbanks, AK Public Information: (907) 356- 5511 Email: 2021.Haystack@firenet.gov inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7548 ♦http://www.facebook.com/AK.Forestry
The Dry Creek Fire and Zitziana River Fire burning south of Manley Hot Springs merged on Thursday and have burned an estimated 7,200 total acres. The fire is now considered the Dry Creek Fire (#195).
Eight BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers and Helitack firefighters from Tok and Delta worked late into the night Thursday trying to corral a 20-acre, lightning-caused fire that ignited late in the afternoon less than 1 mile from George Lake about… Read More ›
Update from Type 3 Incident Commander Torrey Short with the news that 100% containment is estimated for sometime this weekend. Current Containment: 80% Acres: 102 Personnel: 59 Weather: cloudy and cooler today The UAF Wildland Fire Crew Nanooks Wildland Fire… Read More ›
Alaska Division of Forestry initial attack firefighters constructed containment line to reach around 30 percent of the Haystack Fire (#196) before transferring command to the Alaska Incident Management Team early this morning. Since responding on Tuesday, forestry crews along with… Read More ›
Take a closer look at how fireline and hose lays look once constructed and completed. This field report from Tuesday brings you right to the Loon Lake Fire 10 miles northeast of Sterling, Alaska. Containment of this 102 acre fire… Read More ›
Hard work by firefighters and a small army of bulldozer operators has helped bring the Haystack Fire to 40% containment, and that was before the fire received rain on Thursday morning. Fire managers report the fire burning about 20… Read More ›
Containment increased to 70 percent on the Loon Lake Fire yesterday as the Pioneer Peak Hotshots and Gannett Glacier Crew completed cutting a fire break around the perimeter of the 102-acre fire, fire managers with the Alaska Division of Forestry… Read More ›
UPDATE 6 P.M. Firefighters battling the 500-acre Haystack Fire north of Fairbanks are currently attacking a 1-acre spot fire on the south end of the fire closest to the Haystack Subdivision. The spot fire is burning in black spruce about… Read More ›
Update for Wednesday June 16th with video update by IC3 trainee Torrey Short. If you prefer to watch on YouTube, click here: youtu.be/aJYd0DUC3Io Containment on the 102-acre Loon Lake Fire burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge increased to 30… Read More ›
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