Alaska wildfire crews are gaining ground thanks to rain, but dry fuels and over 4,600 lightning strikes this week have ...

Last week, a 20-person crew of Massachusetts wildland firefighters was sent to assist in putting out significant wildfires in ...

Twenty-nine homes, along with 34 other structures, have been lost in the fires near Healy since they began last month, ...

Cody Smeaton, a call firefighter for Westport, is currently deployed to Alaska. He joins a crew from DCR and MassWildlife fighting wildfires in the state's interior. A Westport firefighter is among a ...

With the July Fourth holiday weekend underway, fire officials urged the public to remember that restrictions affecting ...

Nearly 2,000 fire personnel were working 28 staffed fires around the state as of Monday. Rainy weather in the Interior this ...

A 2,000-acre lightning-sparked fire north of the Brooks Range fits a pattern of increasing wildfires on the treeless tundra.

After decades in Fairbanks and even a few close calls in wildfire country, it wasn’t until my son joined the North Star fire ...

Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have elevated the state to Preparedness Level 5 (PL5) , which is the highest level, as wildfire activity continues across the state.July 8 - 8 a.m.As of Tuesday ...

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

Jim Strickland lives on Haystack Road, north of Fairbanks, just a few miles away from where the Himalaya and Haystack Road ...

Alaska is still deep in wildfire season, with crews working to battle over 200 fires burning all over the Last Frontier.