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• Montana fire lookouts: Alone on a peak to watch for wildfires July 31, 2020
  VIDEO: Levi Brinegar says, just over four years ago, he was working in a Pennsylvania steel mill when he got an email that changed everything for him. “It was like, ‘Live on top of a mountain by yourself, spot fires,’” he said. “And I’m like, ‘Yes, please!’” Since 2016, Brinegar has made his home for […]
• One dead, two being treated after airplane crashes in Madison County July 31, 2020
  A plane crashed in the mountain range of Madison County between Big Sky and Ennis Lake with three people on board. According to a Federal Aviation Adminsitration Preliminary Accident report the plane was a Cessna 337F fixed wing multi-engine aircraft that crashed under unknown circumstances. The plane left Helena on Thursday morning. - PUB DATE: […]
• Magpie Rock Fire tops 3,000 acres July 31, 2020
  The Magpie Rock Fire is now burning an estimated 3,100 acres 8 miles west of Dixon, according to Sanders County Wildland Fire Information. That’s up from 2,500 acres reported by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire Thursday morning. According to officials, 287 firefighters are battling the blaze in steep, rocky terrain. - […]
• Fire burning in Little Rockies July 31, 2020
  Fort Belknap Fire Management and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation have confirmed that a fire is burning in the Little Rockies near Cow Creek in the Missouri Breaks, about 6 miles off the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. BLM Lewistown Duty Officer Don Pyrah said the initial call to dispatch for the fire was at about […]