Crews battle South Anchorage vegetation fire near 100th Avenue and C Street

Firefighters battled a vegetation fire Tuesday afternoon in South Anchorage near 100th Avenue and C Street. Municipal crews and state wildland firefighters responded as smoke rose near homes.

The Anchorage Fire Department said shortly after 12:30 p.m. that crews were working on a vegetation fire in the area of 100th Avenue and C Street. Numerous engines and wildfire response units were on scene. The department said no evacuations had been ordered at that time. It asked people to avoid the area.

A state wildfire database listed the incident as the C-ST fire. Discovery time was 12:18 p.m. Tuesday. The fire measured 2 acres at discovery and 5 acres as of an update shortly after 1 p.m., according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. The record placed the fire in Anchorage at about 61.1304 north latitude and 149.8864 west longitude, near C Street south of Dimond Boulevard. The database listed the cause as human. No specific ignition source had been reported publicly as of early Tuesday afternoon.

The state Division of Forestry and Fire Protection sent a helicopter, a helitack crew and two engines to assist Anchorage firefighters, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Division spokesperson Emery Johnson told the Daily News that the only structure threatened as of early afternoon was a trailer.

Photos posted by The Alaska Landmine on X showed flames burning through trees and brush, a smoke column near developed areas and a helicopter carrying a bucket for a water drop. The Landmine said the photos came from a fan using a drone. The drone was brought down before the helicopter arrived.

The fire department asked people not to call 911 about the fire or smoke unless they had new or emergency information to report. Dispatch lines needed to remain open.

No injuries or evacuations had been reported in the available public updates as of early Tuesday afternoon.