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• State and federal agencies assessing lightning-caused wildfires; more fires expected today

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

  July 15, 1 p.m. – The Alaska Division of Forestry and BLM Alaska Fire Service are in the process of gathering information on the large number of wildfires around the state that have been started by lightning strikes the past… Read More ›

• Tok River Fire still being held south of Tok River and Tok Cutoff

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 14, 2016

  

  July 14, 10:45 p.m. – A 200-acre wildfire burning near Tok remains south of the Tok Cutoff Highway and south of the Tok River and state fire managers are hoping to keep it that way. The Tok River Fire is… Read More ›

• Intensity of wildfire near cabins on Salcha River lessens, but still poses threat

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 14, 2016

  July 14, 9:45 p.m. – A lightning-caused wildfire threatening multiple cabins on the Salcha River is now estimated at 175 acres but the intensity of the fire has diminished due to cloud cover and higher relative humidity as a result… Read More ›

• Rapidly growing wildfire near Tok closing in on Tok Cutoff Highway

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 14, 2016

  

  A rapidly growing wildfire approximately 8 miles southeast of Tok is moving toward the Tok Cutoff Highway and firefighters from the Alaska Division of Forestry are doing everything they can to keep it south of the Tok River and reaching… Read More ›

• Firefighers attacking wildfire threatening several cabins on Salcha River

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 14, 2016

  July 14, 6:30 p.m. – Firefighters are attacking a lightning-caused wildfire threatening several cabins on the Salcha River south of Fairbanks, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. The Mid Salcha Fire was reported at around 4:30 p.m. and had grown… Read More ›

• Hot weather, 18,000 lightning strikes behind uptick in fire activity

  By U.S. Wildland Fire Service on July 14, 2016

  

  July 14, 2016 – High temperatures coupled with more than 18,000 lightning strikes throughout Alaska in the past two days resulted in 43 new ignitions and increased activity on already burning fires with more of the same anticipated this evening…. Read More ›

• Air tanker, engines and UAF crew responding to wildfire near 8 Mile Elliott Highway

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 14, 2016

  The Alaska Division of Forestry is responding to a small wildfire near 8 Mile of the Elliott Highway north of Fairbanks. Two engines and a helicopter from the Fairbanks Area forestry office are on scene working on the Vault Creek… Read More ›

• Lightning strikes ignite more than 40 new fires across Interior

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 14, 2016

  Lightning strikes sparked more than three dozen new wildfires across the Interior on Wednesday afternoon and more fires are being reported Thursday as a result of those strikes. The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center in Fairbanks reported almost 7,200 lightning strikes… Read More ›

• Still Potential for a Fire Season

  By Alaska National Park Service on July 14, 2016

  

  Noatak, Alaska: The Alaskan fire season this summer has not seen the number or extent of wildfires that occurred last summer which has been due partly to the heavy amount of precipitation that we have seen over the last few… Read More ›

• Retardant tankers slow spread of lightning-caused wildfire burning near Tok Cutoff

  By Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection on July 13, 2016

  July 13, 8 p.m. – The spread of a lightning-caused wildland fire burning near Mile 50 of the Tok Cutoff has been slowed with assistance from air retardant tankers. The 40-acre Cutoff Fire was less than a mile from the… Read More ›

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