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Q2 reports Billings firefighters responded Saturday evening to a blaze at 615 Samuel Court at around 5:15 PM. An occupant reportedly asked neighbors to call 911. The structure suffered heavy fire and smoke damage, which extended into the attic space above the kitchen and damaged the attic space above the neighboring apartment...

Q2 reports firefighters extinguished a Billings South Side house fire on Thursday night. The call came just before 3 p.m. of a fire on Jackson Street just south of the intersection of State Street. First responders were still on the scene at 11 p...

The fire that consumed a mobile home this morning appears to have started on a couch that was outside the unit... there is evidence that people were smoking near the area before tragedy occurred.

The Garden Creek fire exploded overnight on Tuesday, August 7, to become the largest fire in Montana so far this year.

There have been a bunch of new fires that sprang up over the past week, July 29 -August 6, on the Northern Rocky Coordination Center watch list for Montana.

Today's state headlines include a look at the first big Montana wildfire of 2018, an update of federal, state and local law enforcement attempts to crack down on meth dealers, and a look at the trial of a man suspected of killing a woman during an intoxicated hit-and-run accident in Missoula.

According to Bitterroot National Forest spokesman Todd McKay, they’ve only experienced two small fires about a tenth of an acre up until this recent fire, which is being called the Reynolds Lake Fire.

Billings fire crews extinguished a fire in a large methane holding tank early Tuesday morning. Q2 reports crews were called to the city’s wastewater treatment plant off Highway 87 at about 1:30 a.m. Portions of Main Street and Bench Boulevard were closed while authorities assessed the fire, which was extinguished shortly after 4am and the roads were reopened...

The Billings Gazette reports one person died in a structure fire late Tuesday north of Glendive, according to Dawson County officials. The Montana State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the incident, along with the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office, county attorney Brett Irigoin said on Wednesday...

Despite recent rains, fire season is coming soon and is predicted to be worse than average