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• 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 ›

• Wildfire on Kenai Peninsula grows but poses no immediate threat

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 16, 2017

  

  A lightning-caused wildfire burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge grew in size on Friday but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading south and west toward the Sterling Highway. As of 5:30 p.m., the East Fork Fire was… Read More ›

• Only one staffed fire left in Southwest Area around McGrath

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 16, 2017

  Firefighting personnel on one of the two remaining staffed fires in the Alaska Division of Forestry’s Southwest Area were demobilized on Friday and the one remaining staffed fire will be downsizing this weekend. More than a dozen wildfires were started… Read More ›

• Firefighters working on East Fork Fire in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 16, 2017

  

  Fire managers have formulated a plan to manage a 198-acre wildfire that started in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on Thursday evening. The East Fork Fire was reported at 6:25 p.m. east of the East Fork of the Moose River,… Read More ›

• State forestry battling two wildfires on Kenai Peninsula; one in Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and one near Homer

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 15, 2017

  

  The Alaska Division of Forestry is responding to two wildfires burning on the Kenai Peninsula. The East Fork Fire was reported at 6:25 p.m. and is burning in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, approximately 5-6 miles north of the Sterling… Read More ›

• Work on wildfires in Southwest Alaska is nearly complete

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 15, 2017

  

  Firefighting personnel are completing mop up work on the only two remaining staffed fires in the Alaska Division of Forestry’s Southwest Area between Dillingham and McGrath. More than dozen wildfires were started by lightning more than a week ago but… Read More ›

• South Fork Salcha fire now estimated at more than 8,000 acres

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on June 14, 2017

  A mapping mission on Tuesday estimated the size of the South Fork Salcha Fire at 8,344 acres, an increase of nearly 5,000 acres from previous estimates, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. The wildfire is located in a limited… Read More ›

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