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By this time last year, the Kenai Peninsula was starving for rain. This year, we’re getting plenty of it, and that’s keeping wildfires down.Wildfire…
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Most of the Kenai Peninsula, and most of Southcentral Alaska, is covered by what’s called boreal forest. The forests are dominated by birch, cottonwood,…
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The first ghost of the Swan Lake Fire showed up on Tuesday east of Soldotna.With big wildland fires that burn deep into the terrain, pockets of hot…
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Spring and summer weather gets people out of their houses and working on their property, preparing their homes for wildfire season, clearing trees. But it…
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Firefighters responded to a small grass fire in the Kasilof area yesterday along K-Beach Road. According to the Alaska interaction Coordination Center, a…
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The Alaska Division of Forestry put out a small wildfire that started on Penny Lane between Soldotna and Sterling on Thursday night.The fire started in a…
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With the coronavirus pandemic creating difficulty in getting wildland firefighting personnel and equipment to the state this year, not to mention…
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Alaska Division of Forestry firefighters responded to two small fires on the Kenai Peninsula on Thursday. The Robinson Fire, near Sterling, started from…
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The Kenai Peninsula had its first wildfire of the season Wednesday Firefighters from the Alaska Division of Forestry and Homer Volunteer Fire Department…
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Here are two crises that are bad enough on their own — a worldwide pandemic and wildfires.The Alaska Division of Forestry is taking proactive steps to try…