...some air support, including tankers, helicopters and PC-7 lead planes, which guide the tankers that drop fire retardant chemicals. At least 14 of the Alaska crews came from villages battered economically by dwindling salmon runs this year...
...addition to the loss structures in its path, the Homer Electric Association power line has been damaged, and fire retardant chemicals are being dropped dangerously close to Deep Creek. Dennis Ricker, the Division of Forestry?s coastal region...
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