With help from water-dropping aircraft, eight BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers were able to contain a 160-acre fire burning about six miles east of Unalakleet late Sunday night. The South River Hills Fire (#207) was reported by the Unalakleet Fire Chief at about 1 p.m. Sunday. Smokejumpers that were prepositioned in Galena to respond to […]
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Smokejumpers, aircraft contain 160-acre fire near Unalakleet
June 10, 2019 
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2019 EFF training set for BLM AFS Galena and Tanana zones
March 15, 2019 Comments Off on 2019 EFF training set for BLM AFS Galena and Tanana zones
The schedule for federal emergency firefighter (EFF) training for the 2019 fire season has been set for the Galena and Tanana Fire Management Zones. Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) will facilitate RT-130 Fireline Refresher Training and the Work Capacity Test (pack test) in 24 villages in rural Alaska starting with Grayling on March 25. Villages in […]
Continue reading Firefighters battling fire threatening Huslia
June 5, 2018 Comments Off on Firefighters battling fire threatening Huslia
The BLM Alaska Fire Service is busy battling a fire threatening the village of Huslia. The Long Lake Fire (#150) was spotted at 4:34 p.m. Tuesday by a BLM AFS firefighter aboard an aircraft shuttling supplies and personnel from Galena to Huslia where they were staged for the Deniktaw Ridge Fire (#117). The Galena Zone […]
Continue reading Smokejumpers enroute to 2,000-acre tundra fire near Point Hope
June 4, 2018 Comments Off on Smokejumpers enroute to 2,000-acre tundra fire near Point Hope
Smokejumpers are enroute to a tundra grass fire that has burned an estimated 2,000 acres about 16 miles east of Point Hope. The load of eight smokejumpers was sent to the Tusikpak Lake Fire (#116) that is burning in a modified protection area on ANSCA-corporation land and is within 2.5 of Native allotments. Because they are […]
Continue reading Smokejumpers, water-scooping aircraft successfully contain fire north of Fort Yukon
July 30, 2017 Comments Off on Smokejumpers, water-scooping aircraft successfully contain fire north of Fort Yukon
Smokejumpers are mopping up the Shovun Lake Fire (#371) a day after they and four Fire Boss airplanes were able to contain the new fire burning north of Fort Yukon Saturday. The eight smokejumpers and four water-scooping airplanes were sent to the fire soon after it was discovered by BLM Alaska Fire Service personnel aboard […]
Continue reading Smokejumpers work on old fire after it roars back to life
July 13, 2017 Comments Off on Smokejumpers work on old fire after it roars back to life
Activity on a 1-1/2 month old fire burning 48 miles southeast of Galena picked up recently, prompting BLM Alaska Fire Service officials to send 16 smokejumpers Wednesday to protect a cabin and Native allotments from the Khotol Fire (#183). A load of eight smokejumpers parachuted near a cabin that was about 1.5 mile from the […]
Continue reading Rain takes edge off fire activity in southwest and western Alaska
June 10, 2017 Comments Off on Rain takes edge off fire activity in southwest and western Alaska
Widespread rain has diminished wildfire activity in southwest and western Alaska the past two days, though several fires continue to burn and grow in size. Just about all the fires burning in the Alaska Division of Forestry’s Southwest Area and the BLM Alaska Fire Service’s Galena Zone received varying amounts of precipitation over the past […]
Continue reading BLM AFS works on fire near Anvik
June 5, 2017 Comments Off on BLM AFS works on fire near Anvik
Efforts are underway to suppress a wildfire burning about two miles southwest of Anvik. Eight BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers and two water scooping airplanes were busy working on the fire Sunday night after it was reported at about 7:30 p.m. Neither the village nor other structures are immediately threatened. The Deadmans Slough Fire (#162) […]
Continue reading Village crews help on Lower 48 fires
September 2, 2016 Comments Off on Village crews help on Lower 48 fires
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 Bay, Kaltag and Huslia first landed in California near where the Alaska Interagency Management Team […]
Continue reading BLM AFS sees 21 new fires Thursday
July 15, 2016 Comments Off on BLM AFS sees 21 new fires Thursday
July 15, 2016 – For the second day in a row, there were more than 40 new fires in Alaska, most of them burning in a limited protection area in remote parts of the state. BLM Alaska Fire Service will launch detection flights throughout much of the zones that make up the upper half of […]
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