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• Quick, aggressive aerial attack helps tame 50-acre wildfire off Brock Road in North Pole

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 27, 2021

  UPDATE 7:30 P.M. An aggressive aerial attack has helped tamp down an emerging wildfire off Brock Road in North Pole. Retardant-dropping air tankers and water bombing aircraft have pacified the upstart Brock Road Fire after it ballooned in size from… Read More ›

• Haystack Fire Operational Update for Sunday, June 27, 2021

  By Haystack Fire Information on June 27, 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: 927 acres Containment: 100%                                   Total Personnel: 264 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

• Munson Creek Fire south of Chena Hot Springs behaving with cooler, cloudier weather

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 27, 2021

  Start Date: 06/18/2021             Location: 4 miles S of Chena Hot Springs  Cause: Lightning                      Fire Size: 329 acres Containment: 0%                    Total Personnel: 20  Cloud cover and high relative humidity on Saturday morning kept fire activity and growth minimal on a wildfire burning… Read More ›

• Haystack Fire Crews gridding, mop up and IA ready

  By Haystack Fire Information on June 27, 2021

  

  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 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 ›

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