Card Street Fire doubles in size on Kenai Peninsula

Update: 6:40 p.m., Monday June 15th:

State fire managers are calling the Card Street Fire in Sterling on the Kenai Peninsula “very concerning.” It is now 150 acres and has consumed at least six structures. It has doubled in size in just a few hours. The evacuation area has been expanded North and South of the Kenai river to include 200 homes.

-Evacuations currently include: Salmon Run Drive to the end of Fisherman’s Road and Fisherman’s Court and Dow Island, all subdivisions off of Feuding Lane to Sterling Hwy and Kenai Keys to the Kenai river.
-Temporary shelters have been set up at the Sterling Community Center (relocated from Sterling elementary) and K-Beach Elementary School. Pets in kennels may come to the shelter. Please bring food and medications for pets as none provided.
-No injuries have been reported

Initial story:

Two wild land fires were reported Monday afternoon on the Kenai Peninsula. The larger one was called in at about 1:30 in the Sterling area. State division of forestry spokesperson Andy Alexandrou said by 3:00 p.m. it had grown to 75 acres and was posing a threat to homes.

“We have retardant aircraft inbound to assist with the suppression action,” he said. “We have a helicopter there that we replaced (for) our Kenai helicopter that went to Willow yesterday. We brought one up from Homer from Maritime Helicopters. It is on the Card Street Fire right now.”

There were no official numbers, but voluntary evacuations are underway as several hundred homes are located in the area. Personnel from the Kenai Peninsula Borough are responding on the ground.

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