More Fire News

We have been surrounded by wildland fires this summer and the trend is not letting up. The Stuart Creek 2 fire, on military lands just to the southeast of SP Kennel, grew dramatically in the past few days. On Monday the Alaska Fire Service reported that the fire had burned 10,000 acres. By last night the fire had grown to 45,000 acres, fanned by increasing south winds.

As I write this, the fire's NW perimeter is reported to be 4 1/2 miles from the Chena River and 7 miles from Chena Hot Springs Road at about Mile Marker 26. We are south of 21 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road.

Yesterday morning Fairbanks North Star Borough issued an evacuation 'watch' for our area. Be ready to go at a moment's notice!

By mid afternoon, the kennel was ready. Dog trucks and pick ups with crates were equipped to transport every SP dog, if needed. Box trailers were loaded with dog food, water, tethers, medical supplies and more. Open trailers had all our ATV's strapped aboard. Clothes, people food, computers and records were packed. The caravan was ready to head to Scotty and Bridgett's home west of Fairbanks.

SP Kennel evacuation caravan is ready. IV supervises.
At about 7 pm, we had 20 minutes of light rain, the first rain in 3 weeks. That moderated fire conditions a bit and the evacuation order hasn't come (yet).

The fire is still close by. Although the immediate danger has subsided, we remain on high alert.

Teddy protecting coolers of food and water. She is ready to go, if necessary!