UPDATE 7:30 P.M.
An aggressive aerial attack has helped tamp down an emerging wildfire off Brock Road in North Pole. Retardant-dropping air tankers and water bombing aircraft have pacified the upstart Brock Road Fire after it ballooned in size from one-half acre to an estimated 50 acres in two hours.
There are now more than 70 firefighters on the ground laboring to secure a control line around the fire, which erupted just before 2:30 p.m. and put up a large smoke column visible from North Pole and Fairbanks. A person flying a drone in the area was the first to report the fire.
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Crews fully contain 2 Southwest fires June 3rd 10:49 am |
Samantha Davenport, Anchorage Daily News
Two fires burning in Southwest Alaska last week have both been fully contained, the Division of Forestry said Saturday.
The Pilot Point fire was fully contained around 7:30 p.m. Friday with a total of 3,750 acres burned, said Division of Forestry spokesman Tim Mowry. The fire, which started at a local dump and spread across the tundra, was first reported Monday.
Twenty-six firefighters were assigned to the fire, according to Mowry.
The Kiktak Island fire, located across the Kuskokwim River from the village of Akiachak, was also fully contained as of about 8 p.m. Friday, with 254 total acres burned.