A wind-driven wildfire ignited late Thursday night outside the Alaskan village of Chiniak, on Kodiak Island off the coast from Anchorage.
Village residents began evacuating around 11 p.m. on Thursday, and by early Friday morning local police were urged those remaining to leave as the fire spread, according to reports by the Alaska Dispatch News.
By Friday morning, crews estimated that the fire had burned 2,000 acres. A handful of homes and the local library were destroyed; reports did not say how many homes were burned.
Wildfire Still Raging in Chiniak. (Fire as seen from Kodiak via Facebook) #wildfires http://t.co/Out338CYpd pic.twitter.com/JEhz172R2T
— KMXT Kodiak News (@KmxtNews) August 28, 2015
