Although around 120 fires are burning around the state, 20 are staffed incidents while 90 others are being monitored.
Incident management crews from around the country have flown to Alaska to assist in fire management.
As of Tuesday morning, 4,055 personnel were actively engaged in wildfire management across the country. More than half of those personnel are in Alaska, according to the National Interagency Coordination Center.
The 20 fires that are being actively managed in Alaska have burned 552,686 acres, which is more than the acreage burned by all other active wildfires in the country combined.
I guarantee you won't see this on the national news, because they don't care about Alaska unless Sarah Palin is somehow involved. (Never mind that she doesn't live here anymore, and hasn't been a "thing" here in years.)
I guarantee you won't see this on the national news, because they don't care about Alaska unless Sarah Palin is somehow involved. (Never mind that she doesn't live here anymore, and hasn't been a "thing" here in years.)
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Will pray you get some rain.
Of course you won't.. sigh
Linda, thank you.
NFO, that would make too much sense.
Natural occurrences? Some argue fire is beneficial to overall forest health.
Well, we can certainly pray for rain for you...still don't want any here in West MI...if this sunshine stuff keeps up the mud might actually dehydrate enough so that we can get a tractor both in and out of the hay fields and do hay.
Seriously though, hope all of those fires are not anywhere near you!!! Earthquake and fire in the same year is just a bit much in my opinion.
We have been getting smoke here from Canada from the fires they have going on there. Makes for lots of wheezing patients, but pretty sunrises and sunsets.
Oh my goodness - I never even think of Alaska having wildfires. Shows my ignorance. Hopefully you are not impacted by smoke?
WSF, you'll notice that many of the fires (most ignited by lightning strikes) are burning without interference, for that very reason.
Suz, we'd appreciate enough rain to break the drought, and to rehydrate the vegetation. That would also knock down a lot of the smoke.
TB, we have nearly 600,000 square miles of mostly-forested land. There are hundreds of wildfires every year, but they're not always large. Yes, the smoke drifting across this part of southcentral AK is annoying to bad to awful, depending on the day & wind direction. We have several days of "dangerous".
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