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• Firefighters conduct successful burn out on Dry Creek Fire south of Manley Hot Springs

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 26, 2021

  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.

• About Mountain Fire containment is 100% – all female McGrath warehouse crew thanked for support

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on June 26, 2021

  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 ›

• Haystack Fire Operational Update for Saturday, June 26, 2021

  By Haystack Fire Information on June 26, 2021

  

  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

• Drone Pilots seek out Hotspots on the Haystack Fire

  By Haystack Fire Information on June 26, 2021

  

  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 ›

• Munson Creek Fire grows to 300 acres but cooler, cloudier weather curbs fire behavior

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 25, 2021

  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 ›

• ’99 prescribed fire in Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed stopped Haystack Fire’s spread

  By Haystack Fire Information on June 25, 2021

  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 ›

• Firefighters consider burn operations to protect Native allotment from Dry Creek Fire

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 25, 2021

  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.

• Haystack Fire Operational Update for Friday, June 25, 2021

  By Haystack Fire Information on June 25, 2021

  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 ›

• Haystack Fire containment lines hold through Red Flag conditions

  By Haystack Fire Information on June 25, 2021

  

  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 ›

• 5-day patrol ends with little fire activity observed on fires burning east of Dalton Highway near Arctic Circle

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 24, 2021

  Three firefighters finished a five-day Dalton Highway patrol Thursday to keep tabs on a couple of fires burning near the Arctic Circle about 190 miles north of Fairbanks. The Dalton Highway gang of BLM Alaska Fire Service Fire Specialist Jacob… Read More ›

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