Firefighters

While the Missoula Fire Department waits for November to see if voters will approve its request to raise $7 million annually through a new levy, it's also making plans to construct a new fire station and hire 20 new firefighters.

The wall calendars feature photo collages from various local fire departments on each page, with lots of great pics of our firefighters in action. Sales help VFD members purchase protective gear.

It's been a bad summer for wildfires in Montana, and firefighters need all the help they can get.

Smaller groups of firefighters and other precautions.

The US has sent about 100 firefighters to Australia so far.

It was 70 years ago, August 5, 1949 that 13 firefighters perished in the Mann Gulch Fire north of Helena just off the Missouri River after parachuting into the area from the C-47 aircraft that is now the Miss Montana.

Firefighters in Montana are hoping to have health insurance cover illnesses like cancer and Post-traumatic stress disorder.

On the week of 9-11, the U.S. Post Office chose Missoula, Montana the home of the Smokejumpers Center as the one place in America to introduce a new stamp honoring first responders.

Every year the Missoula Fire Department takes on the Rural Fire Department for a fun charity hockey game.

For the past two years over 1,000 people have been in attendance for this fun free family event.

Firefighters were busy early Thursday Morning after 911 calls came in, reporting that there were fires on both sides of the highway south of Lolo.

The Copper King fire has been burning for nearly a month, but the blaze is only 13 percent contained. Today firefighters attempted to combat the fire with a new technique, which fire information officer Mike Cole describes as the “the Ping Pong method”...