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• State forestry unveils new Q-400 air tanker to be used for 2021 Alaska wildfire season

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on May 19, 2021

  Alaska’s wildland fire managers have a new tool in their toolbox this fire season – a Q-400 turboprop air tanker. The Alaska Division of Forestry typically has two Convair 580 turboprop air tankers from Conair Group Inc. of Abbotsford, B.C…. Read More ›

• Prescribed Fire Training With Local Fire Departments Successful This Week in the Mat-Su Area

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on May 14, 2021

  Wildland firefighters from the Mat-Su Area Forestry station in Palmer have taken advantage of favorable conditions and have conducted two prescribed burns this week. The first is the Sitze Road 15-acre prescribed burn that initiated during favorable conditions Monday afternoon,… Read More ›

• Fires at shooting ranges in Fairbanks and Palmer prompt responses from state forestry

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on May 9, 2021

  Wildland firefighters from the Alaska Division of Forestry and BLM Alaska Fire Service suppressed two wildfires Saturday that were triggered by recreational shooting at shooting ranges in Fairbanks and Palmer. The first fire, the 9.1-acre Chena Hot Springs Road Shooting… Read More ›

• First coal seam fire of 2021 reported near Healy

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on May 7, 2021

  It’s a sure sign of wildfire season in Interior Alaska – the first coal seam fire of the year near Healy. The Fairbanks Area Forestry station responded to the report of a wildfire off Healy Creek Spur Road near the… Read More ›

• Governor Mike Dunleavy declares May 9-15 as Wildland Fire Prevention and Preparedness Week in Alaska

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on May 6, 2021

  With the winter snowpack melting away, days growing longer and temperatures heating up, wildland fire season in Alaska has arrived. To help raise awareness, Governor Mike Dunleavy has proclaimed May 9-15 as “Wildland Fire Prevention and Preparedness Week in Alaska.”… Read More ›

• BLM Alaska seeks comment on Alphabet Hills prescribed burn analysis

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on April 30, 2021

  The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on the Environmental Analysis for an Alaska Department of Fish and Game proposal to burn about 53,000 acres of wildlands in the Alphabet Hills near the West Fork, Gulkana and Susitna Rivers to improve wildlife habitat. 

• Burn operations planned on military training lands in the Fairbanks North Star Borough to reduce wildfire threat

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on April 30, 2021

  

  Starting as early as May 3, the BLM AFS, in cooperation with U.S. Army Alaska (USARAK), will implement prescribed fires on Fort Wainwright and the Yukon Training Area (YTA) to reduce the likelihood of a large wildfires occurring on military training lands this summer. The areas identified for the prescribed burns in the Small Arms Complex on Fort Wainwright are immediately southeast of Fairbanks on the south side of the Richardson Highway. The areas scheduled for burning in the YTA are five miles north and two to 20 miles east of Eielson Air Force Base. The prescribed burning may continue through May 31, as weather conditions allow. 

• Prescribed burns planned at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge in Fairbanks

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on April 28, 2021

  

  Weather permitting, the Alaska Division of Forestry will be partnering with the Department of Fish and Game to conduct multiple prescribed burns at Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge starting as early as Monday, May 3. The burns will be ignited… Read More ›

• Firefighters working to contain 2-acre wildfire near downtown Glennallen

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on April 28, 2021

  UPDATE, 4:40 p.m. The Moose Creek Fire in Glennallen is now 70% contained and firefighters expect to reach full containment in the next hour. Resources from the GlennRich Fire Rescue have been release from the scene and the helicopter will… Read More ›

• Dry, pre-greenup conditions lead to more grass fires in Southcentral Alaska

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on April 26, 2021

  An escaped lawn burn destroyed a storage shed in Homer on Sunday and there were three more grass fires reported in the Mat-Su Valley over the weekend, evidence that wildland fire season has officially arrived in Southcentral Alaska. With the… Read More ›

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