State Forestry Division crews responded to three grass fires in Mat-Su and one in Anchorage on Tuesday afternoon. No structures were damaged and, according to Forestry information officer Glen Holt, the fires were under control and being monitored Tuesday evening.

The Anchorage fire happened on a third of an acre off DeArmoun Road. Firefighters spotted and contained it with help from a Forestry airplane.

A Forestry helicopter helped find a one-acre fire reported on Lazy Mountain. Mat-Su Borough fire responders and Forestry personnel put out that fire, which was reportedly in grass and underbrush off Harding Road near Wolverine Lake.

A vehicle apparently started a fire on an air-strip at the end of Knik-Goose Bay Road. The fire was reportedly spreading into nearby wild lands, but Forestry responders stopped its travel.

Forestry personnel, a Forestry helicopter and Mat-Su Borough Emergency Services responded to a grass fire off the end of Cienna Road near Mile 39 of the Glenn Highway at about 5 p.m. According to Forestry officials, the half-acre fire was moving quickly along the ground and near a building. Responders contained the fire and, according to Forestry, no loss was reported.

Forestry officials have banned most burning in the Mat-Su and on the Kenai Peninsula due to very high fire danger from dry and occasionally windy conditions. The ban includes burn barrels.

Holt said campfires, cooking fires and warming fires are still allowed, but people should be cautious.

Fine reporter Rindi White online at adn.com/contact/rwhite.

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