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0:20

James Nelson

“This year is another weird year, like I said, with the pine cones. It just kind of hit us out of nowhere about 2-3 weeks ago. We just started noticing all the trees started leaning over, and then as soon as we got wind, it was over with.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:28

James Nelson

“We're going to have the power back up on the west feeder to as many people as possible probably here in the next half an hour to 45 minutes. That will stay on as long as the wind keeps down. If the wind comes back up, we got to cut it off again, and we might be cutting off other parts of town as too, as wind comes up or things start spring up.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:33

James Nelson

“We can have more hands here by early next week, but there's not going to be a lot of power going on to the north side of town until all this calms down and the wind calms down.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:28

James Nelson

“90% Of the time no one gives us that because everybody likes their trees and they like their, you know, their privacy.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:24

James Nelson

“The biggest fire danger that we have is the West Feeder, so pretty much from our power plant all the way to Dot Lake. We killed this morning as preventative as the wind came up.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:13

James Nelson

“We're trying to just start not any new fires is our biggest thing right now. So as the wind comes up, more power is going to go off. As the wind goes down, more power is going to come on.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:18

James Nelson

“The trees have a lot of pine cones on the top of them that got really heavy in the past 2 weeks, and that's mostly what's leaning over. It's actually ripping these trees out of the ground. It's ripping the roots right out of them. So we killed the power line this morning going out there.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:33

Emily Yorkstorf

“We don't have a system in this town that tells the people there's an emergency. And if that was there, everybody would have been evacuated very much easier, and there would have been a lot more less houses burned down.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tuesday August 18th, Tok Community Meeting Q&A ·

0:10
John Sims“If both Chugach Electric and MEA those exchange agreements actually come to fruition and we do that, we are still about a BCF short.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:06
John Sims“Is it full? Is CINGSA for right now? Representative Fields, through the chair, it is not. It is about maybe half. I don't know the exact number.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:31
John Sims“We have restarted conversations with Chugach again, and we are waiting back to hear their proposal on what they can do in this different timeframe.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:27
John Sims“So as has been publicly noticed, we are in the middle of an arbitration with HEX to try and get the gas that we expected from them.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:32
John Sims“What we are trying to do contractually is they will give us 1.2 BCF in exchange for us sending that same volume back to them by March of 2028. So we're not receiving gas that we get to keep and just, you know, use for our customers.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:38
John Sims“we had a certain expectation of gas deliveries from the Cook Inlet at the beginning of the year. One of those— I guess one of those groupings of volumes was from Bluecrest.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:09
John Sims“Information that we have since received from them is that they do not plan on starting their exploration or their production.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:19
John Sims“We have not received any discretionary gas sales from HEX since July 26th. We are receiving 8 million a day from them, 8.1 million a day, which is their firm volumes. We were expecting more than that per what we viewed as our contract rights.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:37
John Sims“back in April when we spoke to a number of you down in Juneau, we were expecting gas to start flowing in our system by September 1st from Blue Crest, and we were expecting about 1 to 1.5 BCF of gas. We now know that's not possible for that September 1st delivery to start.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:35
John Sims“Chugach Electric offered up the opportunity for us to do a similar exchange with them, uh, for about 1 BCF of gas.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:28
John Sims“we are working on an exchange agreement with Matanuska Electric.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:31
John Sims“the commission denied our initial petition for reconsideration— excuse me, our petition for, uh, determination of prudency.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm ·

0:32
Rob Allen“The task force of engines came up from, um, Girdwood, Chugiach, Anchorage, and the Matsu.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:21
Rob Allen“the Tok resources responded to the fire. Started trying to pick it up as close as they could, had their helicopter engaged. We sent the helicopter over from Fairbanks to come this way to help. The resources in Delta came this way to help. Copper River came up to help.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:17
Rob Allen“We've got 4 crews coming from Dawson, from Canada, to help. We've got the 2 Q400 air tankers in today.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:34
Rob Allen“I was on the phone immediately with Cato when he had felt, uh, their computers shut off and shut back on.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:25
Rob Allen“we did put a pretty good size evacuation box in right away. One of the things we'll be doing now is we've had an opportunity to get some ground established. We'll be looking at shrinking the box.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:46
Rob Allen“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”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:31
Rob Allen“The big shift that you'll see between now Tomorrow, Jake Livingston, who is the Chief of Fire Operations for Division of Forestry— he's my boss, so I'm trying to do a good presentation here— will be bringing one of the Alaska Complex Incident Management teams in.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:28
Rob Allen“They knew that it was a power line issue. They went out right away to take a look, and by the time they got from the station to their vehicles, the fire was called in. By the time they got to the fire, it was 15 acres and going through to 20.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:21
Rob Allen“there'll be better maps. We'll get better intel out. We'll get better numbers on— structures in there that have been lost. Right now we've been too busy trying to save the structures that are still there to get a good count on what has happened inside that footprint.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:22
Rob Allen“still focused on initial attack, still trying to figure out what we have out there, trying to get an anchor point established to get moving forward. As Jake's team rolls in and starts to move up, you'll see a lot more progression as we start putting some line on the map and getting some things secured.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:22
Rob Allen“2 Water scooping aircraft are overnighting in Whitehorse and will be here tomorrow. We're bringing back our crews that have been in the Lower 48, so we have 4 of them will be trickling in over the next 2 days to start filling up in here.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:39

Emery Johnson

“We do have life and property as our primary objectives. We are on day 2 of an active firefight, and so we are in initial attack”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:32
Rob Allen“We ended up pulling engines off the Kenai, off of the Matsu area, and Fairbanks all collapsed into this area to start helping to pick that up.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:40

Jake Livingston

“what we are planning on doing is just building off of what has already been established. Here with, with, uh, Rob and Cato and all the people working for them. And, uh, you know, just keeping those priorities of life, property, residences going directly after the edge of this fire, keeping it as small as possible.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 ·

0:26
Rob Allen“We used helicopters to knock that down, and as we get people out to patrol the river, as we get more resources in, we'll be taking a look at that and also coming up with protection plans for the allotments and cabins that are along the Tanana.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:19
Rob Allen“We used some water scooping aircraft in there to check up the fire today. Going around the top, we've had some folks out looking along the river. We did get a spot out on one of the islands in the river today.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:37
Rob Allen“We did shrink up the, the go area just a little bit because of the success we've had with the dozer line in there, and we'll be evaluating that every day to the point where we can turn that notification off”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:28
Rob Allen“We've had two crews on the road right now. Two more crews will be coming in hopefully tonight or first thing tomorrow morning, and that'll give us much more horsepower to work out. We've got this fire now broken out into four divisions, so we have leadership working in four different quadrants around the fire.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:44
Rob Allen“One of the other things we did do today, um, we did an in-brief today with the Alaska Incident Management Team that will be taking over the fire at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. That'll allow us to pull our initial attack resources back, get them rested, get them set up.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:16
Rob Allen“Good day on the fire again today. We got a little bit of a break from the wind this morning.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:15
Rob Allen“We're able to have a lot of our resources in and around the area between the Alaska Highway and Red Fox Road working in and around the structures in there, securing that area.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:36
Rob Allen“We'll have 4 tomorrow. Along with the water scooping aircraft, have been building line ahead of 6 dozers that are pushing line heading out to the, towards the Tanana River. We're looking for a good spot out here where the fuel changes to be able to tie that into and keep that also from coming to the west, circling back around, and again threatening the highway and the back end of Tok.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:28
Rob Allen“We're probably almost at 200 people now on the fire. The other news that, that by having some extra folks and getting the dozer line down and around and through the community is we're now out to work out on the edges and keep the fire from coming back around into the town of Tok and threatening the highway. Out in the east flank, we've got the fire burning into the 1990 burn scar.”

Alaska DNR Forestry: MUKLUK FIRE OPERATIONS BRIEFING -August 19, 2026 ·

0:40
Randy Bates“It's, it's something that we haven't played with very much in the regulatory world, but it's something that has a lot of potential to streamline permitting, make it easier to get your permit, make it easier to get you active in the field.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

0:12
John Crowther“Why hasn't this particular person reviewed this? What's the hangup here? We have a lot of ability to get in and participate now, so it's really exciting.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

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Randy Bates“We found a better way of doing business where a simple drafting of regulations sets out the rules by which you operate. You just simply have to toggle online that you need this coverage. You're good to go. It's an overnight permit. It's called permit by rule.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

0:38
John Crowther“The governor wants us to meet or beat the federal timelines. And for the first time in my life, federal timelines may be moving forward and actually be a little bit more predictable timeline.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

0:26
Randy Bates“Now they've reempowered this FAST-41 group, and we just need to make it permanent. We need to make it stick so that it has longevity and withstands the swing of the next administration's pendulum.”

11-3-25 RDC Breakfast Forum - A Conversation with Alaska's Regulatory Agency Commissioners

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