CSKT officials are asking the public to keep an eye out for suspicious behavior after a series of fires have popped up around the Flathead Indian Reservation.
A Type Two Incident Management Team took over the Lazier Creek 3 fire this morning, July 11, which is burning in a rural area between Thompson Falls and Libby.
Despite a ton of precipitation pouring into western Montana during winter and spring, Missoula County Fire Protection Association spokesman Jordan Koppen says the area has finally dried up.
Fire season is well underway in the Bitterroot National Forest where crews are working to take down two fires that were detected over the past few days.
Missoula Fire crews were called out to a blaze at the Travelers Inn motel off of North Reserve Street Early Friday morning. Fire chief Jeff Brandt says the fire was called in at around 5:20 a.m.
Western Montana has been extremely wet this spring and fire season may seem like it’s a long ways off, but the Missoula Rural Fire Department Captain Michael Bowman says crews had a run in on Wednesday with an out-of-control, controlled burn.