State’s first wildfire burns open tundra

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A lack of snow in interior Alaska helped the state’s first wildfire of 2016 burn open tundra. The Alaska Division of Forestry says in a statement that the fire started and was extinguished Monday on military land about 10 miles south of Delta Junction.
The agency says the fire was started by live-fire training. Firefighters from the Fort Greely Fire Department extinguished the fire.
Officials didn’t know how many acres were burned, and planned to travel to the sit