Robert Schmoll

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  Robert Schmoll, fire management officer for the Division of Forestry in Fairbanks, says so far the fire danger has stayed at a minimum.He says there was one fire two weeks ago out by Salcha, but that's been it.

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  Robert Schmoll, fire management officer for the Division of Forestry in Fairbanks, says so far the fire danger has stayed at a minimum.He says there was one fire recently out by Salcha, but that's been it.

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  "Part of the fuel treatment was to burn all the downed fuels to get rid of fire risk," Robert Schmoll, fire management officer for state forestry in Fairbanks, said."When you burn the piles, it burns down and gets rid of a lot of that tundra mat and provides a good mineral seed bed for hardwood regeneration."
  
  Firefighters began burning 40 acres worth of debris piles in Cache Creek, off Murphy Dome Road, earlier this week.Schmoll is hoping to ignite another 200 acres that were cut in the form of a 300-foot wide fire break on the north side of Murphy Dome Road next week.
  
  The state also is hoping to burn about 200 acres on Old Ridge Trail, off the Old Nenana Highway, as well as more than 1,200 acres in the Little Chena River drainage, five to eight miles north of Chena Hot Springs Road.Schmoll said firefighters will be lucky to get to that area this year.

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  Forestry officials are hoping to begin the burns as early as this week if weather conditions are right, said Robert Schmoll, fire management officer for the Division of Forestry in Fairbanks.
  
  Debris piles are located in three areas where firefighters have cut down trees to create fire breaks.The debris areas are the Little Chena Valley east of town, Old Murphy Dome Road west of Fairbanks and Old Ridge Trail off the Old Nenana Highway.
  
  "As you get later in the year you get more chances for inversions and we can't burn with inversions because the smoke won't disperse," Schmoll said.

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  Forestry officials are hoping to begin the burns as early as this week if weather conditions are right, said Robert Schmoll, fire management officer for the Division of Forestry in Fairbanks.
  
  Debris piles are located in three areas where firefighters have cut down trees to create fire breaks.
  
  "As you get later in the year you get more chances for inversions and we can't burn with inversions because the smoke won't disperse," Schmoll said.

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  Smoke and flames closed the highway for several hours Wednesday and fire management officer Robert Schmoll says drivers can expect additional closures.
  
  The fire started at a home near Mile 291 of the Parks Highway.
  
  Schmoll says a homeowner using a burn barrel allowed fire to escape and ignite brush or grass.
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  Schmoll says the fire is within two miles of Nenana but the community's airport and the Tanana River stand between the flames and the city.

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  Fire management officer Robert Schmoll said details were sketchy, but initial reports indicated the homeowner had used a burn barrel and then dumped embers.The embers lit grass or brush and ignited the fire, he said.Winds gusting up to 25 mph spread it north.

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  "We would much rather burn when conditions are in our favor than end up fighting a lightning-caused fire under the worst possible conditions," said Robert Schmoll, Fire Management Officer for the State Division of Forestry."It would be a costly proposition to try to keep a fire out of Gold King if it starts in all this black spruce when the weather is hot and dry."
  
  The burn area is far enough away from most residential areas that it will pose little threat to people or their property."We are more concerned about smoke from the fire than the fire itself," said Schmoll.

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  Fire management officer Robert Schmoll said details were sketchy, but initial reports indicated the homeowner had used a burn barrel and then dumped embers.The embers lit grass or brush and ignited the fire, he said.Winds gusting up to 25 mph spread it north.

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  The Fairbanks fires were caught and controlled because the ground is still wet, said Robert Schmoll, fire management officer for the Fairbanks area.
  
  "Once you get into mid-June, it takes quite a bit more work and resources to put out the fire," he said.

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