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• East Fork Fire Implements New Fire Management Strategy

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on June 20, 2017

  

  The East Fork Fire burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is now estimated at 1,410 acres. Weather permitting, a flight to get more accurate mapping and acreage is planned today. The fire remains approximately 4.5 miles north of the… Read More ›

• BLM AFS smokejumpers working on wildfire near Canadian border

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 19, 2017

  

  Four BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers are working on a lightning-caused wildfire near the Canadian Border. The Pass Creek Fire (#245) was spotted by BLM AFS personnel from the Upper Yukon Zone on a detection flight Sunday following a few… Read More ›

• Weather helps suppression, hinders demobilization of Norton Sound fires

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 19, 2017

  The same weather that helped firefighters with suppression efforts over the past few days is now keeping them from demobilizing from two fires burning near the western coast of Alaska. A squad of six emergency firefighters from the Grayling village… Read More ›

• State forestry managing 119-acre wildfire southwest of McGrath

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 19, 2017

  Wildland firefighters are managing a lightning-caused wildfire that was reported late Saturday morning about 150 miles southwest of McGrath, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. The Paimiut Fire, named after the nearby Paimiut Slough, is estimated at 119 acres…. Read More ›

• East Fork Fire community meeting in Sterling tonight at 6 p.m.

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on June 19, 2017

  

  A public meeting will be held tonight at the Sterling Community Center at 6pm. Join us tonight at the public meeting for an update on current fire activity as well as the plan for how it will be managed. Officials… Read More ›

• Kenai Peninsula’s East Fork Fire grows to over 1,300 acres

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on June 18, 2017

  

  The lightning-caused East Fork has grown to over 1300 acres and continues to burn in a limited protection area of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The fire remains approximately 4.5 miles north of the Sterling Highway and 3.5 miles east… Read More ›

• Forestry firefighters stop Big Lake fire

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on June 18, 2017

  

  Alaska Division of Forestry crews worked late into the night and early Sunday morning to contain a fire near Big Lake. Six DOF firefighters stayed overnight on the fire – named after the nearby Call of the Wild Road –… Read More ›

• BLM AFS smokejumpers, aircraft kept busy by west coast fires

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 17, 2017

  

  A fire burning outside the Stebbins dump and another burning on the tundra 29 miles to the south kept BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers busy throughout most of Friday night and a good portion of Saturday morning. Instead of settling… Read More ›

• East Fork Fire on Kenai Peninsula now estimated at 850 acres

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 17, 2017

  

  A lightning-caused wildfire in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge more than doubled in size on Friday after increasing winds throughout the afternoon produced extreme fire behavior on the east and northeast sides of the fire. The latest size estimate on… Read More ›

• Smokejumpers, water scoopers working fire on Norton Sound coast

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on June 16, 2017

  

  A load of eight BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers and three aircraft including two water-scooping Fire Boss airplanes responded Friday night to a wildfire on the south side of Point Romanof about 29 miles south of Stebbins. While looking into… Read More ›

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