Wildfires Spread Through Alaska, One Within Miles of Anvik
![A wildfire in rural Alaska](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_7102-1-1200x800.jpg)
Deadman’s Slough is about three miles south of Anvik, where a fire, believed to be sparked by a lightning strike, has burnt through about 90 acres. At latest observation, winds were “blowing the fire away from the village, farther south,” says Beth Ipsen with the Alaska Fire Service.