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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 ...
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy meets with firefighters on August 25, 2019. The Deshka Landing Fire was reported on August 17, 2019, around 8:00 p.m., five miles southwest of Willow, Alaska. [1] On August 23, the Northwest Incident Management Team reported that high winds grew the fire to 1,543 acres (624 ha) and it was 15 percent contained.
By mid-August 2019, Alaska's fire season had already set records. Wildfires were threatening Cooper Landing on the Kenai Peninsula and covering much the state with smoke. Record-low rain fell in ...
The circumstance under which a fire occurs, and the likely consequences and public safety and welfare, natural and cultural resources, and values to be protected dictate the appropriate management response to fire" (United States Department of Agriculture Guidance for Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy, 13 February 2009).
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 all-female fire crew will be battling more than 200 wildfires blazing through the state of Alaska. Meet the all-female fire crew battling the ‘unprecedented’ wildfires in Alaska Skip to ...
In 2019, lightning again ignited a major wildfire, named the Swan Lake Fire, and again it was allowed to burn unchecked for some time, until it began to threaten the communities of Sterling and Cooper Landing, as well the Sterling Highway and the Refuge's Skilak Lake Road, the only roads allowing access to towns on the lower Kenai Peninsula. In ...