Start Date: 06/14/2021 Location: 18 miles N of Fairbanks, AK Cause: Lightning Fire Size: 927 acres Containment: 100% Total Personnel: 264 (Fairbanks, AK) – With the Haystack Fire (#196) containment line complete, crews are focusing on control objectives, searching for hot… Read More ›
Firefighters successfully conducted a burn operation to protect Native allotments along the Tanana River Friday from the advancing Dry Creek Fire. Due to the fire’s progress and rapid growth to the northwest in recent days, fire managers decided to take action to protect the two properties near the confluence of the Tanana River and Hot Springs Slough. The fire is now estimated at 26,000 acres. It is still south of the Tanana River.
Acres: 2,179 Containment: 100% Personnel assigned: 35 Pioneer Peak Hotshots worked along the Kuskokwim River yesterday mopping up the remaining areas of heat along the fireline. At the end of shift, Type 3 Incident Commander Pat Johnson stated… Read More ›
Alaska Team’s Operational Planing Section Chief, Jason Devcich with Today’s Operational update for the #HaystackFire Start Date: 06/14/2021 Location: 18 miles N of Fairbanks, AK Cause: Lightning Fire Size: 924 acres Containment: 100% Total Personnel: 250 Public Information: (907) 931- 8113 Email: 2021.Haystack@firenet.gov http://www.akfireinfo.com ♦inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7548 ♦ http://www.facebook.com/AK.Forestry #2021AlaskaFireSeason #FireYear2021
Start Date: 06/14/2021 Location: 18 miles N of Fairbanks, AK Cause: Lightning Fire Size: 924 acres Containment: 100% Total Personnel: 250 (Fairbanks, AK) – Late last night, Incident Commander, Ed Sanford, announced crews have reached 100 percent containment on the Haystack… Read More ›
A wildfire burning just south of Chena Hot Springs had grown to an estimated 300 acres as of Friday morning and continues crawling north toward the hot springs but cooler, cloudier weather on Friday was tempering fire activity compared to… Read More ›
The Haystack Fire (#196) is a lightning-caused fire burning in the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed, managed by the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The watershed is closed to public access, reserving the area for research… Read More ›
Due to the Dry Creek Fire’s progress to the northwest near the Tanana River in recent days, fire managers are considering taking additional steps to protect a Native allotment from the encroaching fire. If conditions allow, firefighters could conduct a burn operation as early as today to protect the allotment that sits near the confluence of the Tanana River and Hot Springs Slough.
Alaska Team’s Operational Planing Section Chief, Jason Devcich with Today’s Operational update for the #HaystackFire Start Date: 06/14/2021 Location: 18 miles N of Fairbanks, AK Cause: Lightning Fire Size: 924 acres Containment: 77% Total Personnel: 247 Public Information: (907) 931- 8113 Email: 2021.Haystack@firenet.gov… Read More ›
Start Date: 06/14/2021 Location: 18 miles N of Fairbanks, AK Cause: Lightning Fire Size: 924 acres Containment: 77% Total Personnel: 247 (Fairbanks, AK)-In addition to mop up on the active fire perimeter, crews are gridding through unburned areas. Gridding is… Read More ›
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