Alaska Wildland Fire Roundup for Monday, June 8 (Bogus Creek Fire Wildfire)

12:00—Sporadic rain and cooler temperatures over the weekend continue to moderate fire danger over much of the state, including southwest Alaska where two large tundra fires have been burning for the past week.The 14,827-acre Whitefish Lake 1 Fire about six miles south of Kalskag is now 100 percent contained and the plan is to release the two remaining crews on the fire today. Work is also winding down on the 25,260-acre Bogus Creek Fire, which is about eight miles south of the Whitefish Lake 1 Fire. The Gannett Glacier Type 2 Initial Attack Crew is scheduled to be released later today and the two remaining crews on the fire, the Pioneer Peak Interagency Hotshot Crew and Chena Type 2IA Crew, will continue to patrol and mop up the perimeter of the fire. On Sunday, the Chena crew conducted a burn-out operation between two fingers of fire on the southeast corner of the fire with support from a water-scooping CL-415 aircraft while the Pioneer Peak and Gannett Glacier crews worked a...