Our other camping spot mile 34 pond area didn't escape the fire. The area behind the trees at the pond was all burned. The smoke beyond the hill is where the fire is now still burning.

Below is some pictures I took of the pond year before last when we camped there.

Web sites

• Fairbanks North Star Borough: http://www.co.fairbanks.ak.us/

• The Alaska Fire Service site: http://fire.ak.blm.gov

• For information from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources: http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/forestry/fire/current.htm

• The National Interagency Fire Center: http://www.nifc.gov

• Environmental Protection Agency air quality information: http://www.epa.gov/airnow/aqi.html

• Alaska Division of Public Health: http://www.epi.hss.state.ak.us/wildfire/default.htm

• National Weather Service fire weather forecast: http://firewx.arh.noaa.gov/firewx_zonefcst.php?zone=222 Alaska fire weather

• GEOMAC fire maps: http://geomac.usgs.gov/

• Alaska Fire Service maps: http://fire.ak.blm.gov/scripts/maps/maps.asp

• MODIS fire maps: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/

•Dailey-News Miner Fairbanks new paper   http://www.news-miner.com