A wildland fire that blew up suddenly Thursday afternoon in a wooded area of East Anchorage started in the area of numerous homeless camps, fire officials say
A helicopter drops water on a wildland fire north of Dowling Road in Anchorage on Thursday, June 23, 2022. in a wooded area of East Anchorage started in the area of numerous homeless camps, fire officials say.The fire burned just over 13 acres in the forest near the intersection of Elmore and Dowling roads and was estimated at 50% contained as of late Thursday. Hot, dry conditions in Anchorage increased fire danger on Thursday.
“We’re still investigating the actual source of the fire,” Boyd said. “There’s evidence of camps all around near where the origin is. Whether or not it was something from an old fire, something that was dropped in there ... we’re just not comfortable saying we believe it to be a camp. There are lots of camps in that area. And the fire burned so intensely as it moved through.”
Anchorage firefighters responded to a wildland fire in a wooded area off Elmore Road on June 23, 2022.Separately, he said, there is an ongoing criminal investigation into four people suspected of intentionally starting fires in the east Chester Creek Trail area this summer. Boyd said he didn’t believe any of those people were seen in the area of the Elmore Fire before it started Thursday.
“There’s no witness statements or evidence leaning us toward this was intentionally set,” he said. ”But ... when we did MLK, we thought the same thing — until we found the flare.”
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