How can it be that one careless match can start a forest fire . . .
but it takes a whole box of them to start a campfire?
It is great that this year in Alaska there was less fire activity than most years. We do have the occasional campfire built by people that is the cause of our timber to be burning, but the major cause is usually lightning strikes the sometimes burns from hundreds of thousands to millions of acres being devastated. Our rains came at the right times this year that we had only a few fires and our ‘hot shot’ fire crews and resources were sent south to the lower 48 to help extinguish burning lands down there.
Kudos goes to the fire fighters all over who battle the elements and protect our natural resources.
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