Wildfire experts are saying the upcoming fire season will be ‘above normal’, meaning more than 300,000 acres burned, due to hotter, drier conditions through September.
The Gibraltar Ridge Fire near Eureka is now the number one firefighting priority in the nation, and there are fresh evacuations for the Sunrise Fire near Superior.
The Mineral County Sheriff's Office is notifying residents of Cougar Gulch that they are now under a Stage Three mandatory evacuation due to the rapidly increasing size of the Sunrise Fire.
Leigh Golding, information officer with the Lolo Peak Fire, reported at about 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday that a firefighter had been injured while working on the fire.
Updates from the new Liberty Fire burning near Arlee, and the Sunrise Fire near Superior. Both are near zero percent containment with massive response from state and federal agencies.