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• Tok River Wildfire is Now 18% Contained

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 17, 2016

  

  Tok, Alaska, 2pm –The lightning-caused Tok River wildfire is now 18% contained. The Alaska Interagency Type 2 Incident Management Team is in place and managing the Tok River Fire while assisting the Tok Area Forestry with initial attack responsibilities. Four… Read More ›

• State Forestry attacking 25-acre wildfire off Seward Highway south of Anchorage

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 17, 2016

  

  July 17, Noon – The Alaska Division of Forestry is responding to a 25-acre wildfire in the McHugh Creek drainage south of Anchorage, about three-quarters of a mile off the Seward Highway. The fire was reported to the Anchorage Fire… Read More ›

• Tok River Fire Transitioned to Type 2 Team Today

  By Alaska Fire PIOs on July 16, 2016

  

    Tok, Alaska – The Alaska Interagency Type 2 Incident Management Team with Incident Commander Tom Kurth, assumed management of the Tok River Fire at 8 a.m. today. The team’s presence brings additional resources, including aviation assets and ground crews… Read More ›

• BLM AFS busy with Yukon River fires

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on July 16, 2016

  July 16, 2016 – The BLM Alaska Fire Service has been busy with fires along the Yukon River corridor that were threatening structures upriver from Rampart and burning near a Bible camp downriver from Tanana. A load of eight smokejumpers… Read More ›

• Firefighters deployed to two wildfires in Southwest Alaska

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 16, 2016

  

  July 16, 7:30 p.m. – Alaska Division of Forestry fire managers on Saturday evaluated the approximately 40 lightning-caused fires burning in Southwest Alaska and deployed firefighters to two fires. A helitack crew from McGrath flew into the area of the… Read More ›

• BLM AFS smokejumpers catch fire near Minto Friday

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on July 16, 2016

  July 16, 2016 – BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers caught a fire burning north of the Elliott Highway near Minto Friday. The Starvation Creek Fire (#527) was spotted by an agency aircraft at 7:20 p.m. Friday while it was flying… Read More ›

• Fire gains ground, threatens lodge near Gates of the Arctic

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on July 16, 2016

  

  July 16, 2016 – A fire burning 25 miles east of Kobuk grew from 1,355 to an estimated 35,000 acres and pushed nine miles in two days thanks to recent record high temperatures, low humidity and winds. The Mauneluk River 2 fire (#386)… Read More ›

• Change in weather helps firefighters get foothold on wildfire near Salcha River

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 16, 2016

  

  July 16, 5:45 p.m. – Mother Nature continued to aid firefighters working to suppress a wildfire threatening several cabins on the Salcha River south of Fairbanks on Saturday, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. A change in wind direction… Read More ›

• More lightning means more wildfires in Interior, Southwest

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 16, 2016

  

  July 16, 4:45 p.m. – It was another busy day for wildland firefighting personnel in Alaska on Friday. Thirty-three new fires were recorded around the state – 17 in BLM Alaska Fire Service protection areas, 15 in Alaska Division of… Read More ›

• BLM AFS smokejumpers responding to fire north of Minto

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

  9 p.m., July 15, 2016 – BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers and aircraft are en route to a fire burning north of Minto and directly north of the Elliott Highway at milepost 106. Once there, they’ll be busy trying to… Read More ›

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