Frenchtown Fire

For the last several years, Frenchtown Rural Fire District has hosted crews from the New York City Fire Department for mutual training.

In real estate, the catchphrase is ‘location, location, location’, and that proved true for a homeowner in Frenchtown whose house caught fire Tuesday night.

The Frenchtown Rural Fire District was the recipient of 30 specially made face shields delivered personally to Missoula by the owners and staff at Bridger Aerospace in Bozeman on Wednesday afternoon.

Missoula Rural and Frenchtown Fire crews responded early Tuesday morning to a trailer explosion and fire at the Wagon Wheel Trailer Park on Big Flat Road.

Just before noon on Monday, Missoula Rural Fire responded to a fire that involved a shed, trees and grass just a short distance away from a residence on Flora Lane, off of Big Flat Road.

Frenchtown Firefighter Kyle Rauch was one of the first responders who arrived early Wednesday morning to assist with the multiple crashes and injuries that occurred due to severe black ice conditions

Friday evening, crews from the Frenchtown Rural Fire Department were called out to two lightning caused fires.

The Dry Gulch Fire has burned over a quarter of an acre about five miles up Dry Gulch Road in an area near Frenchtown that has not experienced any lightning strikes over the past few days, according to Fire Prevention Specialist Jordan Koppen with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation

Several agencies responded to a wildfire near Huson on Tuesday evening.

There's a flood warning for Missoula as warm temperatures and heavy rain have pushed the Clark Fork River over its banks.