The Haines Volunteer Fire Department in the past week responded to two calls for fires in the woods near Fourth Avenue.
“If you’re having a campfire, you need to have a good base where it’s not into the organic layer, because even though you put the fire out, it spreads underneath the ground,” said fireman Al Badgley.
He said both incidents resulted from campfires left unattended.

“Since there’s no gravel in there, wherever you build…
