Volunteers Corner- PROJECT CODE RED

摘要

Alaska has consistently had per-capita fire death and fire loss rates significantly higher than any other state in the United States over the past 10 years. This, according to the Alaska State Fire Marshal's Office, is a dismal record shared equally among cities and towns along Alaska's road system and hundreds of isolated and remote villages scattered across Alaska's rural landscape. Bush villages in Alaska share many challenges to developing effective fire prevention and suppression programs. One is the great distance between most villages and the isolation these distances create. Aircraft year-round, snow machines in winter, and boats in the summer are usually the only means of intervillage travel.