A lift from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter and diminishing winds helped firefighters tame a wildfire near Dalasuga Island, about a half-mile north of Seduction Point.
The blaze, apparently touched off by a smoldering campfire there, scorched 1.5 acres and penetrated as deeply as 100 feet into the forest of Chilkat State Park.
“We had several trees torched. That’s extreme fire behavior,” said Greg Palmieri, who heads up wildfire suppression for the state Division of…
