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• Chetaslina and Long Fire Update: Why Monitor Fires?

  By Alaska National Park Service on July 29, 2019

  COPPER CENTER, AK – The local area has received rainfall over the last few days allowing Wrangell-St. Elias to lift the campfire restrictions in the park and preserve. The use of gas grills and barbeques at campsites are allowed. Fire activity… Read More ›

• Warm, Dry Weather Forecasted; Helicopters to assist Backhaul Missions

  By 2019swanlakefireinfo on July 29, 2019

  

  Daily Update for July 29  Sterling, AK – Significant rainfall over the past five days has saturated the upper layers of duff on the forest floor. The deeper layers of decaying vegetation remain dry, but considerable drying would have to… Read More ›

• Chalkyitsik Complex: “hot and dry”, minimal growth

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 29, 2019

  While Fairbanks experienced rain on Sunday, fire crews working in Chalkyitsik experienced “hot and dry weather”, said Chalkyitsik Plans Chief, Mike Butteri. Crews continue to secure line and the western perimeter between Chahalie Lake and Ohtig Lake and complete firing… Read More ›

• Aerial Fireline Video: Remote cabin on Native allotment saved on the Draanjik River

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 29, 2019

  This video from July 21 shows how the hard work completed by smokejumpers saved a cabin on a Native allotment on the Draanjik (Black)  River from the Bearnose and Frozen Calf fires in the Chalkyitsik Complex. Subscribe to the Chalkyitsik… Read More ›

• How do they to it? A closer look at the Incident Command System at the Mcgrath Fire Base

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 29, 2019

  The Laguna Fire of 1970 scorched more than 175,000 acres east of San Diego, California, killing 16 people and costing taxpayers $234 million. Resulting studies of the Laguna Fire and other catastrophic fires found that failures in communications and management… Read More ›

• Southwest Alaska Area Fire Information Update – July 28

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 28, 2019

  Isolated showers visited Southwest Alaska on Sunday and are expected to continue into next week. Several fires have recorded little to no rain. There are 64 active fires, and no new fires were reported. Five fires remain staffed to protect… Read More ›

• Fireline Video: Watch as Fire Crews Load “Backhaul” into a Support Airplane in Chalkyitsik, Alaska

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 28, 2019

  

  Subscribe to the Chalkyitsik Complex YouTube channel for instant notification of new fireline videos. https://bit.ly/2K5TW6h. When airplanes like the CASA C-212 Aviocar land at the Chalkyitsik airstrip in the remote and roadless area 50 miles east of Ft Yukon, there… Read More ›

• Chalkyitsik Complex: drone footage of firefighters pouncing on spot fire behind the fireline

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 28, 2019

  This short video clip from BLM Alaska Fire Service drone pilot Joe Don Morton shows firefighters on the ground quickly responding to extinguish a spot fire located by the unmanned aerial system, that is assigned to the Chalkyitsik Complex of… Read More ›

• Upper Yukon Zone: Higher humidity keep fire activity minimal

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 28, 2019

  

  The Upper Yukon Zone has 58 active fires, with a total for the year of 74, that have burned over a million acres. The dryness of the duff layer, a blanket on the forest floor of spruce needles and tundra,… Read More ›

• Chalkyitsik Complex: minimal growth, replacement fire crews arrive

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 28, 2019

  Today, fire crews from Missouri, Minnesota, and Wisconsin are arriving in Chalkyitsik and North Dakota and Chief Mountain crews are returning to Fairbanks for flights back to the Lower 48.     Fire fuels are still extremely dry and can transition to… Read More ›

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