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Rice Ridge Fire Morning Update: The next community meeting will be Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. at Seeley Lake Elementary School. The Rice Ridge fire is up 200 acres to 17,991 acres and 16% contained. There are 464 personnel assigned to the fire. The Missoula County Sheriff issued the following on 8/24/2017: An Evacuation ORDER for the area along Forest Service Rd 17507 which runs north into North Cottonwood Canyon was issued due to an immediate fire threat near the Rice Ridge Fire; two cabins have been...
Rice Ridge Fire Morning Update: The next community meeting will be Monday, Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. at Seeley Lake Elementary. The Rice Ridge Fire grew nearly 1,000 acres yesterday. It is now 18,840 acres and is 16% contained. There are currently 486 personnel working on the fire. YESTERDAY: With lower relative humidity and higher temperatures, the fire was more active primarily in the east where it pushed across the North Fork of Cottonwood Creek toward Dunham Point. Water buckets from helicopters...
Rice Ridge Fire Morning Update: There will be a community meeting Monday, Aug. 28 at 6pm at Seeley Lake Elementary School. The Rice Ridge Fire grew more than 3,500 acres yesterday and is now up to 22,240 acres. It remains 16% contained. YESTERDAY: With lower relative humidity and higher temperatures, the fire continued to burn actively in the southeast where it pushed across the North Fork of Cottonwood Creek toward Dunham Point. Crews began to perform strategic burning operations in the area...
Rice Ridge Fire Morning Update: A community meeting will be held tonight, Aug. 28th at 6 pm at the Seeley Lake Elementary. The Rice Ridge Fire grew nearly 5,500 acres yesterday and is now 27,863 acres. It is 22% contained with the increased containment noted by the black line on the map on the west flank. There are currently 535 personnel working the fire. YESTERDAY: Crews completed fire line along the west flank of the fire increasing containment to 22%. Firefighters successfully completed...
SEELEY LAKE – The shortest community meeting on record for the Rice Ridge Fire happened Monday, Aug. 28. With cell phones buzzing and the community anxiously waiting for answers, the operations chief, Seeley Lake District Ranger and Incident Commander offered very few absolutes. Most of the crowd left in less than a half hour when they were told Seeley Lake was being evacuated. The waters of Seeley Lake were closed around just after 4 p.m. Monday. New evacuation orders were given for areas n...
Rice Ridge Fire Morning Update: A community meeting will be held tonight, Aug. 29 at 7 pm at the Ovando Volunteer Fire Department The Rice Ridge Fire grew nearly 3,000 acres yesterday and is now 30,662 acres. The fire remains 22% contained. There are currently 592 fire personnel on the fire. YESTERDAY: The fire was active yesterday along the uncontained fire edge due to hot and dry conditions. An abrupt change in afternoon wind direction caused the fire to spread south in the Seeley Creek area....
