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• Caution with burning advised as 2022 Burn Permits end August 31st 

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on August 31, 2022

  

  The Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection (DOF) asks the public to remain vigilant in their safe burning practices throughout the fall since today, August 31st, is the last day Burn Permits are required in 2022.  It was a… Read More ›

• Good progress burning slash piles in Goldstream Valley area

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 30, 2022

  Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DOF) firefighters are making good progress burning piles of black spruce slash in fuel breaks in the area of Goldstream and Waterford roads. A crew of eight firefighters started last Thursday and, taking… Read More ›

• Smokejumpers, helicopter deployed to protect cabins from Yukon Creek Fire north of Salcha River

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 24, 2022

  

  After the Yukon Creek Fire (#296) burning north of the Salcha River picked up new life over the weekend, 12 smokejumpers deployed Monday night to protect nearby cabins.

• Slash piles near Cripple Creek, Goldstream AK subdivisions to burn

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 18, 2022

  The Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Protection (DOF) will burn hundreds of piles of black spruce slash cut in recent years as part of a Fairbanks North Star Borough wildfire mitigation program that created fuel breaks next to the… Read More ›

• Two lightning starts west of Tok reported and a wind driven fire in Delta Junction leads to evacuations

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 18, 2022

  Rural Deltana Volunteer Fire Department responded to a mobile home fire off Nistler Road on Wednesday evening. Driven by strong, gusty winds, the Nistler Fire (#648) was rapidly spreading into the surrounding wildlands. Initial responders alerted residents in the area… Read More ›

• Visibility and cleanliness improved at Chena River State Recreation Site

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on August 17, 2022

  

  The Chena River State Recreation Site located in Fairbanks has been closed to the public since 2020. The Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection was tasked in early August with removing fuels that had accumulated by thinning and trimming… Read More ›

• Last crew leaves the Clear Fire

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 8, 2022

  Size: 73,284 | Completion: 91% | Personnel: 51 | Cause: Natural, lightning The Division of Forestry and Fire Protection Type 2 White Mountain Initial Attack Crew is demobilizing off the Clear Fire (#346) today, Monday, after completing the last of… Read More ›

• Suppression repair on Clear Fire finalized Sunday

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 7, 2022

  Size: 73,284 | Completion: 91% | Personnel: 52 | Cause: Natural, lightning The total acreage of the Clear Fire (#346) has increased a little over 1,000 acres to 73,284. The geographic information section has been able to better map the… Read More ›

• Rain dampens suppression repair on Clear Fire

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 6, 2022

  Size: 73,284 | Completion: 91% | Personnel: 64 | Cause: Natural, lightning A widespread, steady rain fell across the Clear Fire (#346) area Friday night and continued Saturday morning. “Its just the right amount of rain,” Alaska Division of Forestry… Read More ›

• Yukon Flats wildfires remain very active second day in row

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on August 5, 2022

  Wildfires in the Yukon Flats exhibited extreme fire behavior Thursday for the second day in a row – prompting smokejumpers to conduct burn operations to protect two Native allotments and a cabin.

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