The fire is actively burning in beetle-killed spruce, much of which is dead and blown down. This combined with the steep terrain had made access to the fire very difficult.
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The agony and the ecstasy of Pokemon Go in Alaska
“Almost everybody in my platoon has it,” said Pfc. Dylan Carter, who’s part of an airborne Army unit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. He said there’s no contradiction between jumping out of a low-flying plane, and a video game that basically turns you into a sci-fi animal catcher.