Rain Chokes Montana Fires, Close to Killing Off Cabin Gulch Blaze

Rain is helping battle fires all over Montana, it’s not only putting the brakes on the Reynold’s creek fire in Glacier National Park, it is very close to killing off the Cabin Gulch Fire as Public Information Officer Mariah Leushen reported this morning, July 27.

"Mother Nature has been helping quite a bit, we are receiving a good amount of rain. It started raining last night about midnight and then through this morning it has been raining off and on. We pretty much have containment around most of the perimeter and expect it to be fully contained by the end of the day."

Leuschen says just a few crew members are out patrolling the 1,600 acre burn patch.

"What is left is really just the stumps and a few interior smokes that are still holding," Leushen said. "With the rain in the amounts that we are getting, there's a low likelihood [that it flares back up], but we are doing our due diligence to make sure all the embers are completely out."

Although investigators still aren’t reporting a cause for the Cabin Gulch Fire, Broadwater County Attorney Corey Swanson filed felony arson charges against Robert Alexander Norman for that fire last week.