Missoula Fire Department

UPDATE - Missoula Police Department Public Information Officer Travis Welsh issued a press release at about 2:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 1. Avalanche Update; Saturday March 1, 2014 As of 2:00AM this morning, emergency crews have cleared from the scene of the avalanche. Power lines have been secured, and the gas lines have been capped. There is no information currently available regarding the medic

UPDATE: Saturday, January 18, 6:00 a.m. News partners NBC Montana/KECI reported Friday afternoon, January 17, that a student returned the sword that was stolen from a memorial to the late Chance Geery. The student returned the sword after members of the Missoula City Fire Department spent over a hour in a fruitless search for the sword off the Higgins Street Bridge in the Clarl Fork River. No char

When a hiker or someone walking a dog by a local river falls through the ice, minutes and seconds count for rescue crews to reach the victim.

A home on Skyline Drive in the Rattlesnake area was a total loss after a wind-driven  fire broke out early Monday morning, October 28. Corporal Matt Kazinsky with the Missoula Police Department said the call came in to 9-1-1 just before 3:00 a...

The Missoula Fire Department  was called out to a structure fire at 510 Lolo Street in the Rattlesnake area Sunday, October 27, at about 10:24 a.m.

UPDATE - Tuesday, October 8, 5:00 p.m. Peggy Kuhr, University of Montana Vice President for Integrated Communications, provided an update on the condition of UM building supervisor Mike Burke, who fell through a skylight nearly 20 feet onto the top of a large boiler in the heating plant.

Things got too hot at Hu-Hot Mongolian Grill and Barbeque Saturday night at about 7:30 p.m. after a reported grill fire got out of control, sending plumes of smoke through the ceiling.

Make no mistake, the ban on fireworks in the city of Missoula will be strictly enforced, perhaps for the first time in many years, on this coming Fourth of July holiday.

An arrest was made Tuesday morning in relation to the general alarm fire last Thursday at the Vantage Villa apartments. Missoula Fire Marshall Gordy Hughes said the charges could include arson or felony criminal endangerment.

It seldom happens, but when it does the Missoula City Fire Department mobilizes in a big way. Trench rescue training was conducted on Thursday afternoon at the city gravel yard at Rodgers and Shakespeare streets.