Wildfire Resources Strained As Wildfire Season Starts Earlier And Lasts Longer

Smoke coming from the Robertson Draw Fire Tuesday, June 15th.
The afternoon of Sunday, June 13, was a normal one for Red Lodge, Montana's Fire Chief Tom Kuntz until he got a phone call.
"The call came in for smoke in the area of the Robertson draw," he recalled.
The Robertson Draw is along the Montana and Wyoming border. In his 30-year career of fighting fires, Kuntz said he had never seen a large wildland fire in the beginning of June.
"Our expectation was that this would be a fire that could be extinguished with a few engines and some people," he said.

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