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• Evening Video Update from the Loon Lake Fire – 3 Crews Securing Fireline with Little Smoke Showing in the Kenai

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on June 14, 2021

  

  Fire crews working the 75 acre Loon Lake Fire located in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge wilderness are cutting fireline and mopping up. This is the first video update that was filmed on the Sterling Highway 10 miles south of… Read More ›

• BLM AFS weighing options on pair of fires south of Tanana River 7 miles from Manley Hot Springs

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 14, 2021

  The BLM Alaska Fire Service is weighing response options to a pair of active fires burning south of the Tanana River about 7 miles southeast of Manley Hot Spring. Smokejumpers initially ordered in response to the Dry Creek Fire (#195)… Read More ›

• State forestry mobilizes more than 30 firefighters to Minto Lakes Fire west of Fairbanks; Rosie Creek and Salcha River fires fully contained

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 14, 2021

  The Alaska Division of Forestry mobilized two crews to a new wildfire in Minto Flats on Monday while wrapping up work on two other small wildfires in the Fairbanks area. The 28-acre Minto Lakes Fire was reported at approximately 6… Read More ›

• BLM issues fire restrictions for federal lands near Steese Highway NOAA Facility

  By cmccaablmgov on June 14, 2021

  The BLM on Monday issued a Fire Prevention Order prohibiting campfires, explosives and fireworks on federal lands in a fire-prone area of black spruce near Gilmore Trail north of Fairbanks and north of the (NOAA facility site on the Steese Highway. 

• Loon Lake Fire 15% contained and size reduced to 75 acres, more firefighters on the way

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 14, 2021

  Better mapping has reduced the size of the Loon Lake Fire (#180) burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge from 150 to approximately 75 acres as of early Monday morning. Little growth was expected overnight following an aggressive aerial attack… Read More ›

• Three lightning-caused fires burning east of the Dalton Highway

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 13, 2021

  While checking out reports of smoke from motorists driving the Dalton Highway Sunday afternoon, BLM Alaska Fire Service personnel aboard an airplane found three lightning-caused fires burning to the east of the highway. The Kanuti River Fire (#185), the Arctic… Read More ›

• Aerial attack greatly reduces fire behavior on 150-acre Loon Lake Fire

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 13, 2021

  Here’s a 7 p.m. photo of the Loon Lake Fire following a ramped-up aerial assault on the 150-acre wildfire burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge that included water drops from two water-scooping aircraft from the BLM Alaska Fire Service… Read More ›

• Firefighters gain ground containing Rosie Creek and Salcha River wildfires near Fairbanks

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 13, 2021

  Firefighters continue working to fully contain two small wildfires burning on opposite sides of the Tanana Valley near Fairbanks. The 1-acre Rosie Creek Fire (#174), which was reported early Saturday afternoon in the Rosie Creek area about 14 miles southwest… Read More ›

• Loon Lake Fire in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge grows to almost 6 acres but minimal fire activity reported

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 13, 2021

  Four firefighters from the Kenai/Kodiak Area Forestry station remained overnight on the Loon Lake Fire (#180) after arriving Saturday night to begin suppression action. The fire was reported at approximately 8 p.m. Saturday by multiple parties, both from the Sterling… Read More ›

• State forestry firefighters responding to small wildfire in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 12, 2021

  The Alaska Division of Forestry is tackling a small, remote, lightning-caused wildfire in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge near the same area the Swan Lake Fire started two years ago. State forestry is inserting a Helitack load of four firefighters… Read More ›

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