Residents evacuated amid tense day battling raging Funny River fire
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"Living there, you have in the back of your mind it's one way in and one way out -- and it's surrounded by forest," he added. "It's still not a good feeling when you're deciding what you can take, what you can't take, and what you may leave."

We've had an unusually warm & dry spring in Alaska. Fire danger is very high. Some days we've had a lot of smoke in Anchorage from this fire down on the Kenai, and another one across Cook Inlet from the city.
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