![Residents at a Shovel Creek Fire public information meeting June 26th. (Photo by Dan Bross, KUAC - Fairbanks)](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ShovelCreekFireMeeting2019-600x450.jpg)
Progress is reported by managers of the Shovel Creek wildfire northwest of Fairbanks, despite challenging conditions. As KUAC’s Dan Bross reports, that’s the message from a state team managing the response to the blaze, which has hundreds of area residents in “ready evacuation” status.
Dan Bross is a reporter at KUAC in Fairbanks.