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At about 3 a.m. Sunday morning, September 29, the Missoula Fire Department was called out to a blaze that started in the first level of the city parking garage.

A fire was reported in a Lolo apartment early Saturday morning, located on the street just above the new Lolo Peak Brewery.

A light fire season means some big savings for Montana’s fire suppression fund. The state expects to spend about 19 million dollars on fighting fires each year recently, but Montana State Forester with the DNRC Bob Harrington says we’ve only barely dipped into the fund so far this year.

The Seepay Creek Fire has been burning for over a month, but it took a very nasty turn during past 48 hours growing from about 700 acres on Tuesday, July 12 to over 1,000 acres by Thursday morning.

A structure fire damaged an apartment complex on Kemp Street just before midnight on Friday.

A fire started Monday afternoon on private land near Missoula in mixed grass and timber. The Colorado Gulch Fire has triggered response from the Montana Department of Natural Resources, local fire departments and the Forest Service.

The following updates were provided to KGVO News by Lolo National Forest spokesman Boyd Hartwig:

The Lost Horse Fire in the Bitterroot is still burning and has grown to 55 acres.

MISSOULA, Mont. - According to Boyd Hartwig, of the Lolo National Forest, crews with two engines and two helicopter are battling new fire start about 5 miles due south of Frenchtown on private timber land in the Deep Creek area.

A column of smoke could be seen rising above Missoula Yesterday near Southgate Mall. Missoula City Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Brandt says crews were called out to a structure fire on Schilling Street at about 9:00 a.m. "We had a fully involved structure fire over there: a garage/shop, that caught on fire," said Bradt...