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 Wildfire Mitigation Project near Stuckagain Heights 

  

7/21/2011 | Contact: Al Tamagni 267-4999
Fire Department

To mitigate the risk and hazard of wildfire for residents in Stuckagain Heights and Prospect Heights, the Anchorage Fire Department has partnered with Chugach State Park to thin out spruce trees. This work limits fire spread and intensity and allows greater fire suppression capability in the event of a wildland fire. Additionally, the fuel break offers protection to the Park and the North Fork of Campbell Creek.                       

Chugach State Park has lost thousands of trees to the spruce bark beetle in the past 15 years. These dead trees mixed among hundreds of regenerating live spruce trees create a volatile fuel for wildland fire. Considering the limited access to Stuckagain Heights and the potential for fire in this area to impact these residents along with Hillside residents, a fuel break provides a line of defense for firefighters to slow or stop fire’s spread north or south.

While many homeowners in both subdivisions have participated in the Firewise program to improve their homes’ defensible space from wildland fire, treating public lands adjacent to homes supports the effort to make Firewise Communities. Dense trees and fallen limbs provide the fuel for wildland fires. By thinning spruce trees and pruning the live residual trees, less wood is available to burn.

The Division of Forestry’s Pioneer Peak Hot Shots have been working to thin out spruce trees, both live and dead, for two weeks. With the recent rains and decrease in local fire danger, they are now burning the slash piles along the fuel break. Smoke may be seen from Anchorage during the burn operation.

Piles are attended by these professional firefighters during the burn operation. A continuous water supply is set up throughout the area so that each burn pile is extinguished at the end of each work day.

This project is expected to continue for several weeks until completed.

 

 

http://www.muni.org/fire - http://www.muni.org/parks

 

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