State wildfire crews have been fighting smaller blazes than those on federal land, as rain could reach much of the Interior later this week.
State wildfire crews are taking on a series of smaller fires across Interior Alaska, as more assistance arrives from the Lower 48 to help.
Harrel said the fire is being passed on to an incident management team that arrived Sunday night from Wyoming. More than a dozen 20-person crews have flown to Alaska to fight fires statewide.“It’s not a complicated fire as such but they’re going to be able to focus on it, allowing Division of Forestry firefighters to respond to new fires as they emerge,” Harrel said.near Delta Junction, a 7-acre fire that was being monitored Monday as crews stage to fight it.
“They haven’t really been getting the rain that a lot of other areas of the state have been getting,” Harrel said.
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