
Rob Allen
6:07 - 6:54
"All our focus has been today, for the most part, is everything inside that area from the Alaska Highway to Fox, um, Red Fox, and trying to keep those homes that are still in there protected"
“All our focus has been today, for the most part, is everything inside that area from the Alaska Highway to Fox, um, Red Fox, and trying to keep those homes that are still in there protected”
- Speaker
- Rob Allen
- Timestamp
- 6:07 – 6:54
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Tok
- Captured at
- August 18, 2026
From the transcript
All our focus has been today, for the most part, is everything inside that area from the Alaska Highway to Fox, um, Red Fox, and trying to keep those homes that are still in there protected as we've been trying to build fire line to keep it from coming out of those two areas anyplace else. Just about an hour ago, the first air tankers showed back up in the state. We got them fired up. We're building line out of— off of Fox Road heading towards the Tanana River, and we're building retardant line out there to keep the dozer lines going. There's potential in the next couple of days for some lightning, and if we get some outflow winds from the lightning and this pushes back around, we're back to another problem.