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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.

Travelers to and from Flathead Lake saw a pillar of smoke rising not far from the Tamarack Brewery, but although a home was on fire, the situation wasn't as bad as many thought.

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...

What was a controlled burn quickly turned into an out of control fire Thursday in the 5000 block of Pattee Canyon Road in Missoula.

Missoula Emergency Services recently received a $1,890 grant from MF Global to overhaul the software used in emergency response vehicles.

At  7:34 this morning, March 3, Frenchtown Rural Fire Department responded to a house fire on Serenity Way, just off of Erskin Road at the west end of town.

Talk about being fired up.

At around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Missoula Fire Department responded to a fire at the Howard Johnson Motel on Brooks Street.

Update 3 p.m.: According to reports from the scene, the structure fire as been extinguished. It appears that the exterior of the one-story home that was on fire is mostly intact. Firefighter crews are still on the scene with personnel working inside the home. A structure fire near Clinton drew the response of firefighters from the Missoula Rural Fire Department and the Clinton Rural Fire District