Crews make progress on 2 remote wildfires
Crews make progress on 2 remote wildfires
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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 ...
Wildfire season has begun in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. A large fire near Akiachak and a smaller one near Scammon Bay began around May 24.
A crew of 33 smokejumpers and wildland firefighters from the Pioneer Peak Interagency Hotshot Crew have contained 50% of the fire. All immediate threats
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 Forestr...