fire

A little after 7:30 this morning, 911 received a call about a house fire on Maurice Avenue, near the base of Mount Sentinel in Missoula.

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.

A fire in the 1100 block of Idaho street that spread from a fire pit to several outbuildings, a car and a motor home Friday evening sent a Missoula homeowner to St. Patrick Hospital is serious condition.

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.

A dance presentation at the University of Montana Theater on Wednesday will help describe the Native American perspective of fire.

Missoula homeowner Russ Beelan, had a disturbing wake-up call this morning, January 29, when he was greeted by the smell of his own home burning. "I woke up this morning, dogs are barking, it seemed kind of strange... all of the sudden I hear then the fire alarms go off...

A modular home just off Mullan Road was virtually destroyed by fire on Thursday morning.

At about 3 a.m. Sunday morning, September 29, the Missoula Fire Department was called out to a blaze that started in the first level of the city parking garage.

A fire was reported in a Lolo apartment early Saturday morning, located on the street just above the new Lolo Peak Brewery.

The Seepay Creek Fire has been burning for over a month, but it took a very nasty turn during past 48 hours growing from about 700 acres on Tuesday, July 12 to over 1,000 acres by Thursday morning.

A structure fire damaged an apartment complex on Kemp Street just before midnight on Friday.

A fire started Monday afternoon on private land near Missoula in mixed grass and timber. The Colorado Gulch Fire has triggered response from the Montana Department of Natural Resources, local fire departments and the Forest Service.