UPDATE: Firefighters Injured In Boating Accident On Alaska Wildfire.
They have been transported to the hospital in Fairbanks.
FOREST SERVICE PROVIDES UPDATE: 6:55 PM
Today, Alaska BLM Fire Service put out a press release stating that three firefighters working on the Ninetyeight Fire, Southeast of Fairbanks, were involved in a boating accident on the Salcha River this morning.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Three firefighters working on the Ninetyeight Fire southeast of Fairbanks were injured in a boating incident on the Salcha River this morning. The injured firefighters were transported to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital for further treatment. The extent of the injuries is yet to be determined. The cause of the boating incident is under investigation. More details about this incident will be released as they become available.
Firefighters working on the Ninetyeight Fire are primarily concentrating on protecting structures along the Salcha River. The fire was discovered on the Yukon Training Area east of Eielson Air Force Base on June 19 and merged with the nearby Brigadier Fire to burn a total of approximately 15,600 acres. There are 100 firefighting and support personnel assigned to this fire.
Alaska BLM Fire
Prayers to all those involved. I will bring updates when they are made public.
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Thank you for this update.
Many of your readers aren’t in the wildfire community, so wildfire terms such as “PL4” and “RED medical” may be unfamiliar to us. We’re always grateful for definitions of special terms. For example, we didn’t know what a “RED medical “ was. A lookup brought us to a page about wild land fire incident qualifications — https://www.erlogs.com/highlighted-services/fireline — which seemed to answer the question…
Thanks for any future help you can offer to educate us civilians.