Firefighters extinguished a wildland blaze on Anchorage’s Hillside overnight that started as a structure fire and spread into surrounding brush and trees amid windy and warm weather.
Saw teams from Gannett Glacier Initial Attack Fire Crew based in Palmer worked throughout the night cutting saw line in thick brush bringing containment to 100 percent of the Zircon Fire on May 23, 2022.
The quick work kept the fire to less than one acre, but further spread could’ve had much more severe impacts for residents of Alaska’s largest city living nearby in the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. Because a crew from the Anchorage Fire Department made it to the structure fire quickly and had laid out hoses around the perimeter, the wildfire’s growth was limited almost immediately, Casey said.
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