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Gold dredge no. 8 anchorage facebook10/10/2023 ![]() The two men "said that they were touching some kind of pulley over there, and it started to spark and they tried to get it out with a bottle of water," Franklin said. Shirley Franklin, owner of the Chatanika Lodge down the Steese Highway, said that the two men came into the lodge, asking for buckets of water and saying they had started a fire at the dredge. ![]() The fire was reportedly started by two men in their 20s. 3, which sits out of the Fairbanks North Star Borough fire service protection area, was left to burn. With crews already mobilized, they were able to start dumping fire retardant and water on the blaze just minutes later, putting a damper on the fire considered to be in a "critical protection area" due to nearby homes. The crews assessed the fire, determined that it was not in danger of spreading to nearby forests, and quickly shifted their focus and resources about 30 miles up the road, to what is being called the Long Creek fire. ![]() Once crews reached the Chatanika dredge, they discerned that it was a structure fire, which falls outside of the agency's training and scope of work. ![]() Alaska Division of Forestry aircraft responded to the call, but upon arriving, the lead pilot spotted "a column of smoke of equal concern," farther down the road, Alaska Division of Forestry spokesperson Jim Schwarber said. ![]() 3 north of Fairbanks went up in flames on Saturday afternoon and found no firefighters coming to its aid, as the fire fell outside of both the jurisdiction of local fire service departments and the Alaska Division of Forestry, which had initially mobilized its crews to fight the blaze but wound up fighting another fire spotted just down the road.Īs first reported by the Fairbanks Daily News Miner, the fire was called in on Saturday afternoon. ![]()
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