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Bear mauls solo hiker near popular trailhead in Alaska mountains, officials say
A bear mauled a solo hiker near a popular trailhead in Alaska’s mountains, rescuers said. It happened around 2:30 p.m. July 22 near the Basher Trail, about a 10-mile drive southeast from Anchorage, The Anchorage Fire Department said in posts on Facebook.
Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have downgraded the state to Preparedness Level 4 (PL4) as of Saturday morning.
Nearly 400 firefighters are working to protect homes and infrastructure along the highway corridor between Nenana and ...
The 2,000-acre fire and others north of the Brooks Range fit a pattern of increasing wildfires in the treeless landscape.
More than 530 wildfires have burned an area in Alaska that’s about the size of Connecticut. And the period that’s usually the worst of Alaskan fire season is still ahead.
In Alaska, a little more than half of all wildfires are started by lightning and the rest are caused by humans accidentally, intentionally or through negligence.
Nearly 2,000 fire personnel were working 28 staffed fires around the state as of Monday. Rainy weather in the Interior this ...
Still, in a state where good roads are sparse or nonexistent, crews could not reach some fire zones. The distance between Alaska’s westernmost and easternmost fires this summer was 1,800 miles ...
Capital Weather Gang Extreme lightning sparks more Alaska wildfires in already historic season. More than 2.4 million acres have burned across the interior this year, among the most burned acreage ...
America’s 2022 wildfire season is off to a relatively calm start, with one big exception: Alaska. Right now, the country overall sits above its 10-year average for annual acres burned, but more ...
Alaska had its most severe wildfires in 2004, when 6.5 million acres burned. 2015 was Alaska’s second-most destructive year, with 5.1 million acres burned. More Must-Reads from TIME ...
If you live in Anson, you may already know Seth Morris and PJ Rodriguez—not just as neighbors, but as everyday heroes. As ...
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