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Monday morning began with a bang for many Bonner residents who called 911 reporting an explosion at around 4:45 a.m. Missoula Rural Fire District Captain Blaine Cowan says the explosion most likely came from a house fire.

Authorities evacuated several home in Evergreen yesterday because of a fast-moving grass fire. Lightning-caused fire mostly under control in Bitterroot National Forest. Over 700 gather for funeral of Pryor Good Samaritan murder victims...

The cause of the Cabin Gulch Fire is still under investigation, but today, July 23, Broadwater County Attorney Corey Swanson Filed Arson charges in a case related to that fire.

The Glacier Rim Fire north of Columbia Falls grew to over 100 acres in the past few days.

As Western Montana braces for what many think could be one of its worst fire seasons, Montana Budget Director Dan Villa is confident the state will have the funds needed for fire suppression.

The Missoula Fire Department responded to a structure fire call at 123 W. Kent early Wednesday morning. Emergency personnel arrived on the scene at approximately 1:40 a.m. The fire originated outside and had already climbed the vinyl siding of the single-story house into the attic space...

Just before midnight yesterday, April 30, Missoula City Firefighters were called out to a storage shed fire an 2310 Cottage Court.

Three Missoula fire engines and a ladder truck were called out to a garage fire in the 1500 block of west central this morning, April 24 at around 7:17 a.m.

Seeley Lake area volunteer firefighters Sean Ellinghouse and his wife Kristy Pohlman competed in the Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in Seattle over the weekend. The event is a charity to raise money to fight leukemia and lymphoma, but it appears someone was not in a charitable mood.

Over the weekend, a small grass fire broke out near Missoula’s Mt. Jumbo, and that wasn't the only grass fire Missoula crews have had to handle so far this March. "It started right off the freeway, east of the Van Buren exit and just west of the East Missoula exit," said Missoula Fire Department Assistant Chief Chad Nicholson...