Wisconsin firefighters helping in Alaska
RHINELANDER—Forty federal and tribal firefighters from northern Wisconsin have flown to Alaska to help battle a wildfire near Denali National Park that has burned nearly 600,000 acres.
U.S. Forest Service spokesman Jim Grant in Rhinelander says the firefighters took a charter flight to Alaska Thursday afternoon to join nearly 600 firefighters.
Grant says two, 20-member crews from Minnesota and one crew from Michigan were also on the charter flight for two weeks of duty in Alaska.
Grant says the fire danger in northern Wisconsin’s 1.5-million-acre Chequamegon-Nicolet (sheh-WAHM’-eh-gon nik-oh-LAY’) National Forest is moderate despite extreme drought conditions. He says 54 fires have burned 300 acres in the forest so far this year.
Aug 7, 2009 at 3:55 p.m.
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Alaska is getting $1,024.28 per person in stimulus money from the fed. Wisconsin is getting $387.13 per person.
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