A fire that burned just over four acres off the Sterling Highway on Tuesday was the second wildfire in Cooper Landing this week.
Cooper Landing Emergency Services volunteer Danette Snyder works on the fire on May 10 in Cooper Landing.
“We definitely understand that we’re kind of a tinderbox right now,” she said. “I don’t think that anyone in this town is necessarily fully healed from the Swan Lake Fire.” The fire was near Sterling Highway Mile 46.5, where construction crews had been clearing land for the “Given this is a tree-cutting area, this is not a readily accessible area,” Shurtleff said. “So we used an all-terrain vehicle to send a crew in, and they arrived at approximately 5:45 and confirmed that we had about a quarter-acre of vegetation burning.”There are no fire hydrants on site, so tankers brought in water from the nearby Kenai Lake.
“With the extreme drought conditions that we’re experiencing now, especially down on the peninsula, and the strong winds that have been occurring the past several days, there’s a very high risk for a fire to get away from somebody,” Harrell said.
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