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• Successful pile burn at Narvak Lake increases resilience for remote cabin

  By Alaska National Park Service on May 4, 2022

  

  In April 2022, National Park Service staff took on the logistical challenge of conducting important fuels work at a remote cabin at Narvak Lake within Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. Eastern Area Fire Management staff left from… Read More ›

• Smokejumpers mopping up wildfire after first jump of the 2022 Alaska fire season

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on May 3, 2022

  

  Six BLM Alaska Fire Service Smokejumpers are mopping up a 4.6-acre fire that started near at Pitkas Point about 4 miles of southwest St. Mary’s after the first fire jump of the 2022 Alaska fire season for smokejumpers.

• Air Tanker Drop at Great Alaska Aviation Gathering May 8th Kicks off Wildland Fire Prevention & Preparedness Week

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on May 3, 2022

  

  Attendees of the Great Alaska Aviation Gathering this weekend in Palmer will witness one of the most powerful initial attack resources in Alaska’s wildland firefighting arsenal on full display. Weather and new wildfire starts permitting, the Conair air tanker is… Read More ›

• Prescribed Fire in Palmer Provides Opportunity for Teamwork & Training

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on May 2, 2022

  

  A pre-planned burn of available fuels under a controlled environment was successfully completed at the Kenny and Patti Barber Shooting Range located on Maud Road on Wednesday, April 20th, 2022. The grasses and brush that often surround these types of… Read More ›

• Takotna and McGrath Fuel Break Project Funded with Work to Begin This Summer by Fire Crews

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on April 29, 2022

  

  Just over a year ago on June 13th, a small 2-3 acre fire burning in black spruce was reported near the Kuskokwim River just six miles south of McGrath, Alaska. What became known as the About Mountain Fire grew substantially… Read More ›

• True Survival Story: Firewise & Fuel Breaks Helped Save Alaskans During Fast Moving McKinley Fire 2019

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on April 28, 2022

  

  Alaskan wildfire survivor Pete Petram describes the terrifying moments he and his wife Sandy spent as flames crossed Hidden Hills Road while evacuating the explosive 2019 McKinley Fire. “Sandy could feel the heat through the door as we drove through… Read More ›

• Narrated Aerial Surveillance Flight + Infrared Footage of Kwethluk Fire April 26, 2022

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on April 27, 2022

  

  A flyover video narrated by DOF’s mapping specialist Matt Snyder yesterday for the Kwethluk Fire includes infrared footage and a detailed description of how the fire burned, where it tried to go and where it was held by natural barriers…. Read More ›

• Natural Barriers and Weather Change Halt Kwethluk Fire (#012) Remains in Monitor Status at 10,302 acres

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on April 26, 2022

  Forward movement has been halted for the early season Kwethluk Fire. Burning in tundra, grasses and brush since Saturday April 16th, the wind driven wildfire has been finding sun dried fuels in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. Originally reported… Read More ›

• Burning operations planned for military training lands in Interior Alaska to reduce wildfire threat

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on April 25, 2022

  

  BLM Alaska Fire Service and U.S. Army Alaska to conduct prescribed burning on military training lands near Delta Junction, Eielson Air Force Base and Fort Wainwright to reduce wildfire threat. Burning could start as early as May 1 and last through May 31.

• Kwethluk Fire (#012): 5th Observation Flight Predicts 9,693 acre Fire Running Out of Fuel and Into Natural Barriers

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

  Friday afternoon at 4:15pm, DOF’s aerial mapping specialist Matt Snyder took his fifth observation flight of the now 9,693 acre Kwethluk Fire (fire #012) burning in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge. Snyder, based at the DOF station in McGrath, has… Read More ›

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