The Clear Fire burning in Interior Alaska made a run in the Kobe Road area yesterday, prompting officials to urge any residents remaining to “leave now.”
It’s burning near the Interior communities of Clear and Anderson, roughly 75 miles southwest of Fairbanks.
The Kobe area has been under a “GO” evacuation notice since last week, and an urgent update sent out late Wednesday told those who had remained to “leave now.” Aircraft dropped water and retardant on the fast-moving section of fire, but Van Woert said firefighters had to pull back because of rapidly advancing flames.
“The sky was very clear and so we had a lot of sun on the vegetation and everything,” said Ownbey. “The temperature actually rose into the 80s and then the relative humidity dropped and it dropped into the 20 percentiles. And so on the east side of the fire, we saw a lot of activity and a lot of increased fire rates of spread and trees torching, and movement of the fire.”
One of a dozen new wildfires over the past 24 hours is located northeast of Fairbanks. Fire information officer Jose Acosta said the Little Chena Fire cropped up Wednesday night about 11 miles northwest of Two Rivers, and 11 miles northeast of the Ft. Knox Mine, and was responded to. Garcin said structure protection is also targeted for Goodpaster River area properties threatened by the 1,300-acre South Fork Fire.
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