NATION IN BRIEF : ALASKA : Town Periled as Fires Char Forest, Tundra
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Wildfires charred about 400 square miles of Alaska forests and tundra and still threatened the town of Tok, 260 miles northeast of Anchorage, where firefighters kept up a house-to-house battle against wind-driven flames. Statewide, an estimated 1,200 firefighters were deployed as 37 new fires brought to 184 the number burning out of control across Alaska’s interior, a spokesman for an interagency fire center in Fairbanks said. Most of the fires were blamed on near-record heat, low humidity and lightning strikes.
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