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Crews work to contain wildfire near Pilot Point; blaze no longer a threat to village

May 26—Firefighters are working to contain a wildfire that began spreading Monday afternoon just a few miles north of Pilot Point, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry. The fire is estimated to have spread at least 500 acres by Tuesday morning, but it no longer poses a threat to the village, the division wrote in an online statement. Pilot Point, located on the Alaska Peninsula, is .

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Fire crews are working to contain a 600 acre wildfire near Pilot Point

Crews tackling Pilot Point wildfire from the air and on land

Crews tackling Pilot Point wildfire from the air and on land Megan Pacer © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV This image captured by a Federal Aviation Administration weather camera shows smoke from a wildfire burning in Pilot Point, Alaska on Monday, May 24, 2021. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Smokejumpers from the Alaska Fire Service and Bureau of Land Management are responding to an approximately 250-acre wildfire near the village of Pilot Point in Southwest Alaska. The blaze appears to have started in the local dump and spread from there, according to Alaska Division of Forestry Public Information Officer Tim Mowry. Smokejumpers left early Monday afternoon for the scene about 2 and 1/2 miles north of the village on the Alaska Peninsula, he said. By the time the 12 crew members arrived from Fairbanks about two hours later, the fire had grown from 1 acre to about 250.

Pilot Point wildfire grows to 500 acres, but village safe from danger

Pilot Point wildfire grows to 500 acres, but village safe from danger Megan Pacer © Provided by Anchorage KTUU-TV This image captured by a Federal Aviation Administration weather camera shows smoke from a wildfire burning in Pilot Point, Alaska on Monday, May 24, 2021. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The Alaska Division of Forestry said the wildfire that is burning land near the village of Pilot Point in Southwest Alaska has grown to about 500 acres, but the village is safe from any immediate danger. A 12-person smokejumper crew that arrived Monday afternoon managed to help lead the wildfire away from the remote village of about 65 residents on the Alaska Peninsula, according to the division’s Tuesday morning press release. It reportedly began in the local dump, and escaped out into the grass.

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