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Missoula City Fire department crews were called out to a structure fire early Saturday morning which took over a hour to bring under control.

The Bitterroot National Forest is planning, weather permitting, to carry out fall prescribed burning beginning as early as Monday afternoon.

The Missoula city fire department responded to a structure fire early Friday morning believing someone was inside the burning building.

The rainfall from Wednesday morning has reduced the fire threat in the Missoula area significantly.

Just before 4 a. m. on Wednesday, Missoula City Fire crews were dispatched to a structure fire at 2116 South 4th Street West.

Crews from Missoula Rural Fire, Missoula City Fire department and the Frenchtown Fire Department combined to knock down a fire at the Roseburg Forest Products plant on Razer Drive.

The U.S. Forest Service has issued a stage 2 evacuation notice to citizens with homes in the danger zone of the Sawtooth fire.

Smoke continues to pour into the Bitterroot Valley from forest fires in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. The main smoke producers are the Powell SBW East Complex with the Cedar and Fern Fires and a number of fires south of there in the Moose Creek Ranger District of the wilderness ...