The Missoula Fire Department responded to early morning reports of flames and smoke coming from a dryer located in the utility room of a 5-plex apartment building located at Pattee Creek Dr.
A power line fire just west of Missoula caused a brief closure of Interstate 90 during the Tuesday morning commute and left about 1,200 customers without power.
The Montana Department of Transportation reported live wires fell across the interstate between the Airway Boulevard Exit and the Reserve Street exit at about 7 a.m. T...
The fire danger in Missoula County and most of Western Montana dropped yesterday, September 7, after a cold and rainy Labor Day weekend. Missoula County Emergency Services Director Adriane Beck explains.
Lightning sparked a fire that ignited Thursday in the Ninemile Ranger District. It’s grown to 2,900 acres since then. The fire is located about 15 miles southwest of Tarkio, west of Missoula.
City and county emergency services are prepared for possible thunderstorms and high winds which are forecast to hit western Montana Friday evening. As rain starts to dribble down the KGVO window, the National Weather Service is already predicting damaging winds and isolated thunderstorms.
Firefighters have responded to and extinguished over 30 wildfires in the Bitterroot National Forest this summer, but 18 new wildfires were started by lightning this week and all but four are currently contained.