A roughly 2-acre wildfire reported Thursday afternoon near Campbell Park in Anchorage sent clouds of white smoke into the sky and caused road closures in the area as firefighters work to contain it.
A fire burns in East Anchorage Thursday afternoon, June 23, 2022. The fire is near Dowling Road and Elmore.
A roughly 2-acre wildfire reported Thursday afternoon near Campbell Park sent clouds of white smoke into the sky and caused road closures in the area. The fire was reported just before 3 p.m. in a wooded area near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, said Assistant Fire Chief Alex Boyd. No structures were immediately threatened by the blaze, he said. A number of municipal buildings, homes and a softball complex are located nearby.
Twenty units from the Anchorage Fire Department were on scene Thursday afternoon and Boyd said resources from the Alaska Division of Forestry were headed to the area., which described the blaze as a brush fire, Elmore Road was closed to southbound traffic between East Tudor Road and Dowling Road; East Dowling Road was closed west of Elmore Road; 68th Avenue and Elmore was closed; and northbound traffic was closed off at MLK and Tudor Centre Drive.It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the fire.
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