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The Miller’s Reach Fire, also known as the Big Lake Fire, was a wildfire that began on June 2, 1996 in an area around Miller’s Reach Road near Houston, Alaska, approximately 33 miles (53 km) north of Anchorage, Alaska. The fire burned over 37,000 acres (15,000 ha), destroyed at least 344 structures, [3] and caused more than $10 million in ...
In order to exercise efficient emergency management, states susceptible to wildfires have collaborated to develop the Firewise Communities USA Recognition Program.The Firewise Communities Program focuses on reducing the loss of life and property, in terms of wildfires, by providing resources to allow communities to build responsibly in natural surroundings and assist one another in preparing ...
The Taylor Complex Fire was a 2004 complex of 7 wildfire incidents in Alaska that consumed approximately 1,303,358 acres (5,275 km 2) of land, the largest of which was the Billy Creek Fire. [1] By acreage, the complex was the largest wildfire in the United States between 1997 and 2007. [ 2 ]
Nov. 2—Lake County is in the process of updating its Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) — a document that helps identify and address the local threats of wildfire. After a summer when ...
The fire began June 19, 2007, when sparks created by a hand-held grinder being used to sharpen a shovel ignited dry grass. [2] The couple who accidentally started the fire attempted to beat it out with a shovel and the shirts off their backs, but the dry conditions in the area at the time caused the fire to spread rapidly, and they had to be rescued by helicopter as they were soon surrounded ...
The 2004 Alaska fire season was the worst wildfire season on record in the U.S. state of Alaska in terms of area burned. [2] Though the 1989 fire season recorded more fires, nearly 1,000, the 2004 season burned more than 6,600,000 acres (10,300 sq mi; 27,000 km2) in just 701 fires. [1] The largest of these fires was the Taylor Complex Fire. [3]
As of Monday, 309 wildfires so far this year have burned nearly 672 square miles (1,740 square kilometers) in Alaska, the nation’s largest state. Seventeen of those fires started in the last day ...
The Shanta Creek Wildfire was a lightning caused forest fire that started on June 29, 2009, in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. More than 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ; 20 sq mi) were burned and over 400 personnel were involved in the firefighting effort.