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

Authorities say they have arrested a man on suspicion of arson in a fast-growing California wildfire that has driven nearly 2,800 people from their homes.

Firefighters in western Montana rescued two mountain lion cubs hiding under a burning log.

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.

Highway crews are trying to clear mud and debris that washed onto roadways when heavy rain fell on land scarred by wildfires in north central Washington.

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.

At 11:25 a.m. today, August 5, crews from the Missoula Fire Department responded to a house fire on Eaton Street where smoke was billowing from all sides of the property.

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: