Evacuation

The University of Montana-Western campus at Dillon was closed due to a bomb threat on Friday morning.

Montana firefighters are working under an extreme amount of stress as they try to extinguish all the surrounding wildfires in the state and some members of the community are making their jobs even more difficult.

The Whetstone Ridge and Meyers fires in Montana have gotten so bad that some residents are now under a red evacuation order.

Just before 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, the Missoula City Fire Department responded to a gas line hit and rupture that occurred at the intersection of 34th Street and Bellecrest Drive.

Homeowners near the Roaring Lion Fire received some good news on Labor Day.

Nearly 1,000 homes in Ravalli County are now under a stage one or stage two evacuation advisory.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox was one of hundreds of state and county workers forced to evacuate his office on Thursday due to a bomb threat.

UPDATE (4:12 p.m.) Authorities were able to pinch the gas line late Friday afternoon, after a main line was ruptured in downtown Hamilton.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A wildfire driven by strong weekend winds has burned 4.5-square miles in south-central Montana and forced the evacuation of more than 50 homes in a subdivision where at least two structures have been lost.

Fire crews have increased containment of a wind-driven wildfire that destroyed 40 homes, but say they don't know yet when residents evacuated from two small California towns at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada will be able to return home.