Birch Creek News

Hand Crews - 13 Dozers - 5 Engines - 6 Helicopters - 3 Water Tenders - 1 Total Personnel: 372 The complex received up to a half inch of rain in the past 36 hrs.

Aerial resources flew for the first time in five days. Repeater repair was successful as a result of improved flying condition.

At 9 p.m., the Bluff Creek fire was 5 miles west of Circle and "moving at an extreme rate, with crowning and torching," said fire information officer Sarah Saarloos with the Alaska Fire Service.

Crazy Mountain Complex: Bluff Creek Fire 32,999 acres Jagged Ridge Fire 31,256 acres Little Black One 307,901 acres Puzzle Gulch 672 acres Line was cut and prepped at Steese Highway MP 159, east to the ridge in preparation for burn out.

Cooler weather and light winds on Sunday allowed firefighters to attack a 28,000-acre fire near Circle that jumped the Steese Highway on Saturday and got within two miles of the village.

The Alaska Type II Team assumed management of 4 fires in the Upper Yukon Zone on July 3, 2009 at 9pm.

Flooding was reported in several area rivers on Thursday following heavy rains in the Interior, but the high water levels were seen mostly in remote areas.

RINDI WHITE / Anchorage Daily News / Meadow Lakes Seniors Inc. board members Liz Hawkins and Toni Kleewein stand at the entry to Birch Creek Villas on Monday.