Today, we traveled up to the Billings International Airport to welcome home the National Guard! They were treated to a water cannon salute as they taxied into the terminal.
In an hour-long press conference held via Microsoft Teams on Friday, a host of community leaders and medical professionals literally pleaded with Missoula and Missoula County residents, especially those between the ages of 20 and 29, to get vaccinated against COVID 19.
Opening his press conference in Helena on Friday, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte had scathing words for officials in Washington. D.C. who sent National Guard troops out of federal buildings and into unheated parking garages, leading him to order Montana’s troops home immediately.
Governor Steve Bullock was in Missoula on Tuesday to visit two companies housed at MonTec; FYR Diagnostics and Inimmune, that are working on ways to find a vaccine for COVID 19.
The Missoula County Office of Emergency Management made an emergency declaration at the end of April in anticipation of the high waters they knew would be coming.
Around 60 Montana Air National Guard units were expected to prepare for work on the Lolo Peak Fire near Missoula today, August 28, but changing conditions on the fire have led to a change in plans.