Alaska wildfire crews are gaining ground thanks to rain, but dry fuels and over 4,600 lightning strikes this week have ...

A lightning-sparked fire that has burned about 2,000 acres of Arctic Alaska tundra is the biggest wildfire on the North Slope ...

Last week, a 20-person crew of Massachusetts wildland firefighters was sent to assist in putting out significant wildfires in ...

The majority of incidents were “just small grass fires” that the fire department quickly extinguished, an official said.

Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a ...

Cooler, wetter weather is helping slow wildfire growth across Alaska, but smoke and evacuation alerts remain in effect as ...

Red Flag conditions and hot, dry winds fueled major flare-ups across Interior Alaska this weekend, intensifying multiple ...

The team consists 18 members from the Connecticut Interstate Fire Crew, DEEP said, along with 2 members from the Rhode Island ...

Cody Smeaton, a call firefighter for Westport, is currently deployed to Alaska. He joins a crew from DCR and MassWildlife fighting wildfires in the state's interior. A Westport firefighter is among a ...

Twenty-nine homes, along with 34 other structures, have been lost in the fires near Healy since they began last month, ...

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

The 2,000-acre fire and others north of the Brooks Range fit a pattern of increasing wildfires in the treeless landscape.