A reader has asked for an update on the wildfires burning in the interior.
According to a story in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, rains have significantly slowed the growth of the fires:
Fire managers ordered the crews last month as sunny, dry weather baked much of the state. But managers Saturday reported seeing only low chances a separate blaze, the Toklat 2 fire burning 25 miles southwest of Nenana, could grow significantly in the coming days. The fire, which at an estimated 189,000 acres has burned an area three times the city of Seattle, was limited this weekend to "smoldering and creeping." This year's 370 fires have so far burned 856,000 acres, the News-Miner reports.
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Locally, we got rain overnight ... and there's fresh snow on the mountains. sigh...
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
1 comment:
Thanks for the post. It is amazing how many acres are involved. We got downpours on and off today that partially flooded my basement. Some of the roads were submerged and many appeared as if they were rivers.
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