This summer, Alaska is being hit by hundreds of wildfires and this has burnt millions of acres of trees. Recently, at the Fairbanks compound of Alaska’s Division of Forestry, workers were washing a mountain of fire hoses, covered with soot and they were in piles approximately six feet high and 100 feet long.

This year, approximately 3,500 smoke-jumpers, helicopter teams, hotshot crews, and other workers have come to Alaska from different parts of the country and Canada. They have together deployed approximately 830 miles of hose in order to fight fires.

Firefighters were making attempts to deal with flames in the area of over 31,000 acres, together with an area near the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which is spread from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez. It is reported to be the one of nearly 300 fires at any instant.

According to Tim Mowry, spokesman for the Alaska Division of Forestry, "People don't fathom how big Alaska is. You can have a 300,000-acre fire, and nobody knows anything about it, because nothing's been done about it, because of where it is".

As per reports, the surprising 2015 Alaska wildfire season could soon become worst in the state for the reason that approximately 5 million acres has already been burnt by these uncontrolled fires. It is an area bigger than Connecticut. In the last week, the rate of the burn moderated, however, as per scientists, the fires just indicate a climatic change that is modifying this state, with its coasts, its forests, its glaciers.