A crash that resulted in a vehicle fire in Soldotna ended with no injuries and the driver being cited for basic speed and no insurance, the trooper dispatch reported on Wednesday. Troopers were called to the scene of a vehicle fire at 11:21 pm on Tuesday. When the arrived at the scene at K-B Drive, they observed […]
Eight summers ago, a bolt of lightning struck a dry tundra hillside in northern Alaska. Fanned by a warm wind that curled over the Brooks Range, the Anaktuvuk River fire burned for three months, leaving a scar visible from the International Space Station. The charred area was larger than Cape Cod. While northern Alaska’s treeless […]
On Thursday morning, a residential fire broke out in the community of Chevak resulting in injuries and one fatality it was reported yesterday. Alaska State troopers were notified of a fire burning in Chevak, a small community near Hooper Bay in Southwest Alaska. It was reported at 10:48 am, that people from the home were […]
On a clear day last spring, fire sizzled on water at Poker Flat Research Range in the Chatanika River valley. There, scientists were spilling crude oil in a manmade water basin and torching it from above. A series of similar test burns were part of a team effort between university scientists and researchers with the […]