Alaska’s wildland firefighters have been completing their annual training and, with help from a new state grant, strategically cutting and removing trees, many of them killed by spruce beetles.
: If you look historically at our most devastating fires, they are in the urban interface, and they have been human caused. So these are all fires that in theory should be preventable. So I think just the awareness that any time you do an activity that includes either burning or open flame in the wildland setting, just use extreme caution, especially this time of year, May, as we have that dry grass and these windy conditions.
With this administration, public safety is a big part of their push, and we received a $10 million capital improvement project, just earmarked for fuels reduction. And so that gives us state funds to leverage more federal funds, which this year come to us through the infrastructure bill. So we are really in a good place when it comes to actually funding for this work.
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