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As Western Montana braces for what many think could be one of its worst fire seasons, Montana Budget Director Dan Villa is confident the state will have the funds needed for fire suppression.

The Missoula Fire Department responded to a structure fire call at 123 W. Kent early Wednesday morning. Emergency personnel arrived on the scene at approximately 1:40 a.m. The fire originated outside and had already climbed the vinyl siding of the single-story house into the attic space...

A little after 7:30 this morning, 911 received a call about a house fire on Maurice Avenue, near the base of Mount Sentinel in Missoula.

Just before midnight yesterday, April 30, Missoula City Firefighters were called out to a storage shed fire an 2310 Cottage Court.

Three Missoula fire engines and a ladder truck were called out to a garage fire in the 1500 block of west central this morning, April 24 at around 7:17 a.m.

A fire broke out at a home in the 3000 block of Shilling Street in Missoula this morning, April 20, with reports that people were trapped inside.

U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell says logging in Montana could be tripled over current levels and it is important to significantly increase forest restoration work.

A fire in the 1100 block of Idaho street that spread from a fire pit to several outbuildings, a car and a motor home Friday evening sent a Missoula homeowner to St. Patrick Hospital is serious condition.

Seeley Lake area volunteer firefighters Sean Ellinghouse and his wife Kristy Pohlman competed in the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle over the weekend. The event is a charity to raise money to fight leukemia and lymphoma, but it appears someone was not in a charitable mood.

Over the weekend, a small grass fire broke out near Missoula’s Mt. Jumbo, and that wasn't the only grass fire Missoula crews have had to handle so far this March. "It started right off the freeway, east of the Van Buren exit and just west of the East Missoula exit," said Missoula Fire Department Assistant Chief Chad Nicholson...