2. 2010

Eagle Trail Fire, Tok, AK

A few days spent on the Eagle Trail fire near Tok and Tanacross, AK. When I left, this fire had grown to almost 15,000 acres.
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Trees show some signs of the fire that burned through here days before, though this area didn't burn completely black.
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Trees show some signs of the fire that burned through here days before, though this area didn't burn completely black.

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  • The "Black" stretches into the distance on a cold section of the Eagle Trail fire near Tok, Alaska.
  • The "Black" stretches into the distance on a cold section of the Eagle Trail fire near Tok, Alaska.
  • Jess Young extinguishes some heat in a hotspot.
  • Jess Young extinguishes some heat in a hotspot.
  • Danny Clemons uses the pressure from the hoseline to dig deep into the buried heat of a smoldering hotspot.
  • A tall birch stands out against the sky, painted red by retardant drops during the initial attack on this flank of the fire.
  • Steam and smoke drift around Danny Clemons as he works at cooling down a hotspot.
  • Jess Young kicks up a cloud of hot ash and steam as she puts water on a hotspot.
  • Steam and smoke drift around Danny Clemons as he works at cooling down a hotspot.
  • Jess Young watches the smoke column rise at the other end of this large fire.
  • Danny Clemons and Jess Young watch the smoke column from the far flank of the fire as activity picks up in the midday heat.
  • Our engine stands dwarfed and idle on our dozer line as activity picks up on a part of the fire unreachable by vehicle.
  • Our engine stands dwarfed and idle on our dozer line as activity picks up on a part of the fire unreachable by vehicle.
  • Jess Young cools a hotspot alongside a dozer trail through the black.
  • Our home on this fire was a dozer line along one flank, putting out heat wherever it showed up.
  • A 360 panorama of a section of the black on the Eagle Trail fire.
  • Danny Clemons and Brush 62.
  • Burnt trees stand out against the sky.
  • Trees show some signs of the fire that burned through here days before, though this area didn't burn completely black.
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