Alaska Dispatch News
JUNEAU, Alaska — A firefighter working the Juneau Lake Fire on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula suffered minor injuries Monday evening in a “bear encounter,” according to the U.S. Forest Service.
Few details were immediately available. The Forest Service wrote in a release that the firefighter was airlifted to an Anchorage hospital after he walked about a mile from the site of the attack to the helicopter.
The firefighter is “undergoing standard treatment for animal bites,” the release said.
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