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A fire in western Alaska, fueled by high winds, has moved within just miles of an Alaska Native community. The wildfire has spread over nearly 50,000 acres.

The Alaska Type 1 Incident Management Team, two Alaska hotshot crews and more than a dozen Alaska Smokejumpers have been mobilized to the Lower 48 to assist with wildland fire management in the western United States. The Alaska IMT, which consists of approximately 70 highly trained wildland firefighting personnel from multiple Alaska state and federal agencies, flew out on a chartered jet from the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) on Tuesday. The Team will be prepositioned in Bois...

Chelsea Self / Post Independent A visual comparison of the cliff side above the No Name Drainage during the Grizzly Creek Fire and today. Tinderbox-dry conditions during one of the driest summers on record resulted in the biggest wildfire to ever burn in the White River National Forest that surrounds Glenwood Springs, eventually consuming 32,631 acres. The Grizzly Creek Fire sparked in the median along Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon just west of the Grizzly Creek rest/recreation area around 1...