BLACK CAT FIRE UPDATE
As of 10:00 Friday, August 17, officials from the DNRC announced that most
of the evacuations on the Black Cat fire west of Missoula have been lifted.
The only mandatory evacuation is for residents in Mill Creek Drainage above
Spring Hill. As of a detection flight last night, the Black Cat fire is
estimated at 4,500 acres.
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YELLOWSTONE FIRE
Fire crews have shored up defenses around a century-old lodge and houses and
cabins outside Yellowstone National Park, as a 29-square-mile fire continued
to push closer through mountainous terrain.

The Columbine fire began with an August 9th lightning strike. It's
threatening a 1904 lodge built by Buffalo Bill Cody, and part of the Pahaska
Tepee Resort
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