The National Park Service says the Contact Creek fire in Katmai National Park has grown to about 3,500 acres. The fire is spreading to the southeast, but it hasn’t damaged any infrastructure.
Park Service Public Information Officer Caron McKee said residents of King Salmon may see smoke from the fire, which has spread across an estimated 3,439.“Crews have actually gone in and finished wrapping that weather station and protective structure wraps to protect it just in case the fire should reach it. That is at this point, the fire has not reached it.”
“The unique thing about Alaska is there’s so many areas where a fire might start that it’s just not near any infrastructure, and sometimes the fire can even be beneficial to the ecosystem,” she said. “So in those limited management areas, what they’ll do is monitor the fire and just make sure it’s not encroaching on any infrastructure but not actively suppress it. And then they can always change tactics if needed if the fire conditions were to change.
“The fire management officers that were observing it in the last couple of days described it as, it’s really only burning about the top three inches or so — the vegetation —so it’s really kind of staying at the surface.”
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