GROTON — Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a 20-person crew organized by the Massachusetts Department of ...

Earlier this summer, Interior Alaska wildfires were so widespread, Fairbanks resident Nettie La Belle-Hamer had to prepare a go-box in case the flames encroached too closely on her home. La ...

Almost 50 large wildfires are burning in a dozen US states from Texas to Alaska. The McKinley Fire, which has now spread to more than 4,300 acres in Alaska, has destroyed at least 80 structures so far ...

Alaska Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter aviators assigned to the 207th Aviation Troop Command conducted Bambi Bucket water drops in response to the Nelchina Glacier fire near Eureka Roadhouse ...

Cody Smeaton, a call firefighter for Westport, is currently deployed to Alaska. He joins a crew from DCR and MassWildlife fighting wildfires in the state's interior. A Westport firefighter is among a ...

Ashes swallowed my hiking boots as I climbed a forested ridge north of Fairbanks. Blackened branches clawed at the sky — the ridge burned last year in the Grapefruit Complex fire — and the air still ...