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• Montana's wildland/urban nature means significant wildfire risk for communities May 24, 2022
  As the temperature rises and we collectively start gearing up for summer, it’s important to do your part to mitigate wildfire risk. “Montana is a fire-prone landscape and every house that is built in Montana is at risk in some regard of coming into contact with wildfire,” says Paige Cohn, the Statewide Fire Information Officer […]
• Orphaned elk calf rescued by Missoula firefighters battling New Mexico wildfire May 24, 2022
  PHOTOS: Firefighters with a Missoula Fire Department engine crew helping battle wildfires in New Mexico rescued an orphaned elk calf on Saturday, May 21, 2022. A post on the Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak Fire Facebook page said the Missoula crew found the elk calf in an area of severely burned forest. - PUB DATE: […]
• Whitefish Fire Department says 1 sent to hospital after high speed crash May 23, 2022
  VIDEO: The Whitefish Fire Department reports that one person has minor injuries after a high-speed crash on U.S. 93 on Sunday. Photos show a passenger car got wedged under a box truck. Emergency personnel had to extricate a passenger in the car, and send that person to the hospital. - PUB DATE: 5/23/2022 12:00:00 AM […]
• Tackling Montana’s EMS shortage, from the supply side May 21, 2022
  At any moment, the radio clutched in Quinlan Roe’s hand could squawk, his cue to jump in one of the ambulances just a few feet away and speed out onto Missoula’s streets. The call might take him a few dozen miles south up the Bitterroot Valley or 80 miles north to Condon, with who knows […]