In the state’s largest city, where vagrant and criminal encampments are spreading like wildfire, the state Division of Forestry is not providing classes in basic firefighting, as it is providing across the rest of the state.
The flyer for the classes include ones Kenai, Glennallen, and Fairbanks, where lightning strikes set off fires each summer, but in Anchorage, where outdoor-dwellers start fires such as the massive one at Davis Park in February that burned multiple structures, nothing is being offered for the public to learn about the basics of dealing with a wildfire…