FAIRBANKS, Alaska – Firefighters across the Final Frontier are working to contain dozens of blazes that have forced evacuations and occasionally sent plumes of smoke drifting into the Lower 48.

Officials with the Alaska Division of Forestry and Fire Prevention said this spring's wet weather may delay the wildfire ...

Firefighters and equipment from the lower 48 states and Canada are arriving to help battle wildfires burning in Alaska. Weary firefighters welcomed the help as they struggled to keep up with two major ...

Earlier this summer, Interior Alaska wildfires were so widespread, Fairbanks resident Nettie La Belle-Hamer had to prepare a go-box in case the flames encroached too closely on her home. La ...

It was raining buckets at the Tanana Valley Farmer's Market in Fairbanks on July 9: a major turning point for Interior Alaska's fire season. Visitors dodged the downpour, hopping from one tent-covered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke from the Ikpikpuk Fire is seen on this satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. (Image provided by Ben Jones/University of ...

But seasonal wildland fire outlooks usually don't factor in lightning because local lightning forecasts are difficult and time-consuming to put together. A group of researchers at the University of ...

GROTON — Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a 20-person crew organized by the Massachusetts Department of ...

Almost 50 large wildfires are burning in a dozen US states from Texas to Alaska. The McKinley Fire, which has now spread to more than 4,300 acres in Alaska, has destroyed at least 80 structures so far ...

You would think after 30 years of living in Fairbanks, including the summer of 2004 when 6,600,000 acres burned in Alaska, that I would have some idea of how wildland firefighting works in our state.