People who lost their homes in the McKinley Fire will get help to rebuild. The McKinley Fire Long Term Recovery Group aims to help people who didn’t have insurance. The fire started Aug. 17 and quickly tore through the woods along the Parks Highway around mile 90. Ned Sparks evacuated knowing everything he had would likely be gone when he returned. “Firefighters felt they had control and it took over the top, the flames over the top of the trees with the wind,” Sparks said in an interview outside the Upper Susitna Senior Center on Aug. 19. “They had to flee for their lives too. All the structures are gone.” Sparks was one of about 50 people who lost their homes to the fast-moving flames. He said he and his wife couldn’t get insurance because their home was still under construction over the summer. They were finishing up the second floor when the fire started.