This season’s favorable weather is thanks to an upper level trough of low pressure over the Bering Sea and Western Alaska. In all, last year’s fires consumed 4,844 square miles. The only fatality in last year’s fires came when a helicopter pilot moving equipment to support firefighters died in a crash. One home was destroyed in that fire and several seasonal cabins were lost. Smoke from a fire that prompted a three-week evacuation for a subdivision in the community of Anderson blanketed Denali National Park and Preserve. It’s a far cry from last year, when the state burned in ways rarely or never seen.Ī lightning strike in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in Southwest Alaska, a region primarily made up of tundra, threatened two Alaska Native villages with about 700 total residents before firefighters put it out. “If you were to kind of draw up a recipe for what would be a benign fire season in Alaska, we really have really checked all those boxes just this summer so far,” said Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist with the National Weather Service. Thanks to a cool, wet summer, wildfires so far this year have burned just 1½ times the size of New York’s Central Park. (Ryan McPherson/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service via AP, File)Īlaska is off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades - an immense relief one year after fires scorched nearly enough land to cover Connecticut and even threatened remote Alaska Native communities on the tundra. A year after wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Connecticut, Alaska in 2023 was off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades. Then we add some CSS to syle it.A tundra fire burns near St. So now CSS needs to be applied, add a class social-menu to the main menu ul element so styles can be applied.

The code is the icon with 2 CSS classes wrapped in a tag.įor a full menu that includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,Instagram and YouTube, structure the mark up in a list surrounding the fontawesome code with a link tag which will link the icon to the social media page: īy default we get something like this which inherits any styles we have in our website. With the CSS file in place, choose the icons you need, the social media ones are found in the free brands section, just click the one you need to get the HTML code. If using WordPress you can register and enqueue the CSS style. You can link to the Fontawesome CSS file via a CDN or just copy the download it to your site. Fontawesomeis widely used and supported in all modern browsers and older browsers. How to make social media menus from icon fonts using the awesome FontAwesome.

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