Sawtooth Fire Continues Movement to the West
The smoke will not leave.
The smoke will not leave.
Humidity is expected to climb soon.
The Sawtooth Fire is most active to the west.
Sawtooth Fire has reached 5,000 acres.
The 4,869 acre Sawtooth Fire west of Hamilton is now 35 percent contained, and much of that containment is on the important eastern edge of the blaze - which is nearest private property.
The fire has been spreading farther west into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Fir
The fire spread to the west Sunday.
It depends on where you are.
During the day Monday September 3, the Air Quality Monitor at the Ravalli County Courthouse in Hamilton registered hourly levels of “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” and even “Moderate” in the late afternoon. The
The Bitterroot National Forest is implementing an “emergency area closure” on the West Fork Ranger District due to expected future fire behavior from the Mustang Fire burning on the Salmon-Challis National Forest in Idaho. The lightning caused fire has grown to more than 196,000 acres, some of which (approx. 3,000 acres) has burned on the Montana side of the divide on the Bitterroot NF.
The Mustang Complex of forest fires has burned over 145,000 acres near the Salmon River, and has displaced many animals.
Saturday, a fisherman spotted a lone bear on a river trail near Corn Creek Boat Launch. The bear
Ravalli County is going to Stage One fire restrictions this Saturday 8/17.
The US Forest Service has identified a firefighter killed in an Idaho wildfire Sunday as Anne Veseth, age 20, a seasonal firefighter for the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest.
Veseth, as native of Moscow, Idaho and a sophomore at Lewis and Clark State College In Lewiston, was apparently struck by a falling tree or debris. The
Lolo National Forest spokesman Boyd Hartwig says ‘Fire Season has come to Western Montana’, and he has two rapidly growing fires to prove it. The Butler Fire has doubled in size to over 80 acres in the last 24 hours as it burns a few miles from Frenchtown Pond.