Nineteen new wildfires appear in western Alaska within a day

Since yesterday, nineteen new fires have started west of the Yukon River in the Galena zone, an area of about 93 million acres. These latest blazes raise the current number of active wildfires in Alaska to about 50.
Beth Ipsen is the spokesperson for Bureau of Land Management’s Alaska Fire Service. Ipsen says these fires extend from Southwestern Alaska to the North Slope.
“Many of these fires were discovered along the Western coast from Unalakleet to Point Romanof. When Galena s