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• BLM AFS monitoring late season fire in the Northwest Arctic

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on October 15, 2016

  Oct. 15, 2016 – The BLM Alaska Fire Service is monitoring a 350-acre fire that is burning five miles northeast of Noorvik in the Northwest Arctic. The Melvin Cannel fire was reported to the BLM AFS Galena Protection Zone on… Read More ›

• Wildfire near Sutton now estimated at 200 acres

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on October 15, 2016

  

  Saturday, Oct. 15 – 3:35 p.m. – A late-season wildfire near Sutton in the Matanuska Valley is now estimated at approximately 200 acres and firefighters from several different agencies are working to contain it. Approximately 50 firefighters from the Alaska… Read More ›

• State Forestry, local fire departments battling late-season wildfire near Sutton

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on October 15, 2016

  

  Saturday, Oct. 15, 10:30 a.m. – Firefighters from the Alaska Division of Forestry and multiple Mat-Su Valley fire departments are battling an approximately 178-acre wildfire near Mile 56 of the Glenn Highway south of Sutton. The Moose Creek Fire was… Read More ›

• BLM AFS and U.S. Army Alaska Conduct Prescribed Burn in Yukon Training Area

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on October 13, 2016

  Oct. 13, 2016 (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – Starting as early as Sunday, Oct. 16, the BLM Alaska Fire Service and U.S. Army Alaska will implement a prescribed fire in the Yukon Training Area, located approximately 35 miles east of Fairbanks. No… Read More ›

• BLM Alaska Fire Service, U.S. Army To Burn Debris Piles on Military Lands

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on October 5, 2016

  

  Oct. 5, 2016 (FAIRBANKS, Alaska) – The U. S. Army Alaska, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service, will be burning piles of woody debris created this summer during hazardous fuels reduction projects on the Fort… Read More ›

• 2016 Alaska fire season numbers well below normal

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on September 30, 2016

  

  Fairbanks, AK – Sept. 30 – Despite an early start to Alaska’s 2016 wildfire season, the number of acres burned this summer ended up well below normal levels. A total of 558 wildfires burned 500,095 acres in Alaska this summer,… Read More ›

• Smokejumpers respond to fire near Koyuk

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on September 2, 2016

  

  Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 –  BLM Alaska Fire Service Smokejumpers are responding to a fire burning in tundra about two miles east of Koyuk. The fire was reported by villagers at approximately 1:30 p.m. today. Agency personnel flew over the fire… Read More ›

• Village crews help on Lower 48 fires

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on September 2, 2016

  

  Sept. 2, 2016 – Five 20-person rural Alaska Emergency Firefighter (EFF) crews headed south late last week to help work on a handful of wildland fires burning in the Lower 48. Two crews from Chevak and one each from Hooper… Read More ›

• Hunters advised to be careful with fire during hunting season

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on August 12, 2016

  

  With hunting season underway, the Alaska Division of Forestry and BLM Alaska Fire Service ask hunters to use caution with anything that could cause a wildfire. While abundant rainfall, shorter daylight hours and cooler temperatures have decreased fire danger across… Read More ›

• Crews head south for Lower 48 fires

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on August 3, 2016

  Click on photos to see image. Aug. 3, 2016 – Five 20-person Alaska firefighting crews boarded a jet Wednesday afternoon to join firefighting efforts in the Lower 48. The Division of Forestry Type 2 Initial Attack (IA) Gannett Glacier and White Mountain crews, the… Read More ›

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