Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection is responding to the Last Chance Creek Fire (#305) 4 miles southeast of the Fort Knox Gold Mine mill and 8 miles east of Gilmore Trail above Steel Creek. Fairbanks Area DOF helitack, four engines, one dozer, six smokejumpers, two Fire Boss water scooping aircraft, and retardant Tanker-544 have all responded to the 2-acre fire. Air Attack is overhead coordinating the firefighting effort on the ground and in the air.
Aerial resources have been effective and suppression efforts will continue through the night. Additional updates will be available Saturday on AKFireInfo.com.
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Categories: Active Wildland Fire, Alaska DNR – Division of Forestry (DOF)