All Emergencies 911 Calling Procedure 

  • Dial 911.
  • A Dispatcher will answer your call.
  • Tell the Dispatcher that you are located in the Village of McGrath, Alaska.
  • Tell the Dispatcher the type of emergency: Police, Fire or Medical.
  • The Dispatcher will ask questions and connect you with an emergency responder in McGrath, Alaska.
  • The Dispatcher will stay on the phone line with you until you are connected with a McGrath. Alaska responder or until help arrives. 

*Note: When calling 911 you will be connected to the State Trooper Dispatch in Fairbanks, you must relay you are needing assistance in McGrath, Alaska. It is important to specify location, as Fairbanks has a McGrath Road that may be confused with the Village of McGrath. 

Fire

McGrath also has a Volunteer Firefighter Department (VFD). Interested in joining contact....

Medical

Click here for examples of Emergency and Non-Emergency. If a Medical Emergency call 911 as described above.

Police

Alaska State Troopers have a designated trooper residing in McGrath. The current trooper is Trooper, Patrick Simasko. 
Patrick Simasko

Wildfire Reporting

Call the State of Alaska, Division of Forestry - Southwest Area McGrath Office at 907-524-3366.

The Southwest Area Office in McGrath, 195 miles west of Anchorage, is accessible by air only. Numerous Alaska villages, mostly situated along rivers, are spread throughout the 66.6 million acre protection. The terrain varies from mountainous uplands to lowland flats. The Alaska Range serves as the protection area's eastern boundary, the Bering Sea the western. The Southwest Area extends southward to the coast and northward to the Galena protection boundary.

Lightning accounts for about 80% of the Southwest Area ignitions. During peak activity periods, the office situation unit may track and monitor anywhere from a few to as many as 50 fires daily. In a remote, road-less area of this size, daily aerial reconnaissance is essential. Whether it's smoke-jumper or helitack activities, air tankers, or detection and mapping aircraft, McGrath is the hub of air operations of the Southwest Area.

State of Alaska, Division of Forestry - Southwest Area McGrath Office
907-524-3366 Fireline (wildfire reporting)
907-524-3010 Main Office
907-524-3367 Dispatch