15/04/2023 Stati Uniti (United States-USA), Alaska, (AK), Southeast Fairbanks
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law and/or enforcement agency for assistance”.
By Tim Ellis, KUAC – Fairbanks
The state Division of Forestry has cleared a wide swath of trees and vegetation from a fire-prone area west of Delta Junction. It’s one of several fuel breaks that Forestry has cleared over the past year to protect other communities around the state from wildfire. Division crews used earthmovers and other equipment last winter, while the ground was frozen, to clear a 300-foot-wide, 13-mile-long swath of forest west of the Delta River. That’s where several big wildfires have burned in recent years, like the Oregon Lakes Fire that blackened 35,000 acres in 2019. “That area has a got a frequent fire history,” says Norm McDonald, who heads up Forestry’s Fairbanks-based fire and aviation operations. “The combination of fire starts and the wind — that’s just an area of concern for us.” McDonald says agency officials have long considered cutting a fuel break in the area, to eliminate vegetation that feeds a fire and to create safe areas for staging crews to fight wildfires. And the Oregon Lakes Fire, along with increased state and federal funding for wildfire prevention, motivated them to get the job done. It gives us a toe-hold,” McDonald said, “a place where we can safely put firefighters to protect whatever values that we identified.” That toe-hold is the 349-acre fuel break, west of the Delta River and the city of Delta Junction on state land near military training areas that are littered with unexploded bombs and other munitions. “We know it was used actively by the military for training, and we know there’s unexploded ordnance out there,” McDonald said. “So we have not and will not put firefighters in there.”
Photo-Source: alaskapublic.org
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