'Active' wildfire burning, evacuation notice issued in Cloudcroft kvia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kvia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An aerial photo of the 2-acre Nenana Rail Fire along the Alaska Railroad tracks outside of Nenana on Tuesday, August 3, 2021. The fire was caused when a railroad maintenance truck, below, caught fire on the railroad tracks and spread to the surrounding woods. Matt Nunnelly/Alaska DNR-Division of Forestry
Fairbanks Area Forestry responded to a wildfire in Nenana on Tuesday after an Alaska Railroad maintenance vehicle caught fire on the railroad tracks and the fire spread to the surrounding woods.
A helicopter and two water-scooping aircraft were called in to make water drops on the Nenana Rail Fire while a small group of firefighters from the Fairbanks Area Forestry and the Nenana Volunteer Fire Department on the ground worked to contain it at 2 acres.
The BLM Alaska Fire Service is establishing a Type 3 fire management team to deal with a new, quickly growing 813-acre wildfire east of the village of Venetie in the upper Yukon Zone.
The lightning-caused Marten Creek Fire was reported at 1:30 p.m. Sunday as a 3- to 4-acre wildfire burning in continuous black spruce approximately 13 miles east of Venetie. The fire is located in a Full management protection area on Venetie Indian and Neets Ai Corporation lands. While no values are immediately threatened by the fire, there are three cabins within 7 miles of the fire, the closest of which is about 5 miles to the southeast.
State forestry air tanker assists Canada with retardant drops on wildfire in the Yukon akfireinfo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from akfireinfo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.