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Smokejumpers deployed to wildfire threatening fish camp, allotments on Kuskokwim River near Akiachak

Akiachak, Alaska, United States

The Alaska Division of Forestry deployed 12 smokejumpers on an estimated 100-acre wildfire burning near the village of Akiachak in southwest Alaska Tuesday afternoon to protect a fish camp and Native allotments surrounding the fire.

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