It was a warm day indeed inside the ‘Child Start-Head Start’ Program at the old Whittier School on Monday, as the Missoula Rural Fire Department supplied dozens of three to five year-old children with new warm winter coats.
Representatives from AmeriCorps and the Montana Campus Compact arrived bearing gifts to personnel on duty at Missoula Rural Fire Station 1 on South Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, the 18th anniversary of 9-11.
Missoula Rural Fire Crews were called out early Thursday morning to fight a fire that had already consumed a shop and was threatening other structures in the 7000 block of Highway 12 outside Lolo
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.
Just after 1:30 on Wednesday afternoon, 9-1-1 dispatched Missoula Rural Fire to a controlled burn that had been fanned by gusty winds just south of Lolo.
The Missoula Rural Fire District’s Board of Trustees is asking the public for an increase in their mill levy by 29.6 mills on the May 7 election ballot.