Despite the cold temperatures, Alaska's Division of Forestry is asking Kenai Peninsula residents to start taking wildfire precautions.

...states. Hundreds of support personnel also went along to handle firefighting strategy and logistics. The state forestry division also provided some air support, including tankers, helicopters and PC-7 lead planes, which guide the tankers...

...use in the Lower 48." Furlong also wants to know why the fire camp is not being sited on the 33 acres the state forestry division owns on the Sterling Highway near its junction with Mackey Lakes Road. "They could walk from their beds to the...

...Monday night. More than 300 firefighters continued to work on the Fish Creek Fire, said Pete Buist of the state forestry division. Among them were three who had a rough landing when the helicopter carrying them made an emergency landing after...

...about 73,300 acres. ''We're doing the best we can under the circumstances,'' said Pete Buist of the state forestry division. The Survey Line fire on Fort Wainwright had grown to at least 104,000 acres Wednesday. About 50 firefighters...