High ticket prices and low availability have created challenges for fire crews getting to Alaska.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Over 50,000 acres have burned in wildfires across Alaska this summer as communities deal with high fire danger following a month of record heat in May.
Usually, the specially trained wildland firefighting crews are flown up commercially, according to Ipsen. But that wasn’t the case this year, as they faced challenges getting the crews to Alaska. One of the first crews was flown on a Bureau of Land Management aircraft to Ketchikan, and Ipsen said a smokejumper plane from Fairbanks picked them up. The following crew of smokejumpers was flown by a U.S. Forest Service Sherpa airplane to Ketchikan and taken from there.
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