It’s a sure sign of wildfire season in Interior Alaska – the first coal seam fire of the year near Healy.
The Fairbanks Area Forestry station responded to the report of a wildfire off Healy Creek Spur Road near the community of Healy on Thursday night that appears to be a coal seam fire. The 4-acre fire, named the French Gulch Coal Seam Fire 2021, did not pose a threat and is in the same area where numerous coal seam fires have sprung up in past years.
The fire was reported by a local resident at around 8 p.m. It was located approximately 8 miles east of the Parks Highway and about one-quarter mile south of Healy Spur Road.
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Graduates of the first ETT collaboration in 2012 between the fire department and the school ended up saving the volunteer fire department. Here they proudly pose with then EMS director Rob Graham. Three of them are still in careers involving emergency medicine. Photo courtesy Tri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department.
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Joel West of Burns Lake, B.C. Canada performs during the 34th Annual Athabascan Fiddle Festival Friday afternoon, November 11, 2016 at the Chief David Salmon Tribal Hall. It is West s second year in a row attending and performing at the festival. The event, sponsored by the Athabascan Fiddlers Association, is featuring 80 bands over four days, and continues today (Saturday) from 1pm-12:30am.
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