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Firefighters have nearly contained this year’s biggest wildfire so far. And rainy weather that’s scheduled to set-in tonight should help them control that fire near Delta Junction and dampen fire danger elsewhere around the eastern Interior.
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 Boise, Idaho, home to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), to await an assignment. Members of th...