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DORSET â The Dorset Fire Department, with assistance from 11 area departments, battled a fully involved house fire on Danby Mountain Road in the early morning hours Monday.
The fire, at 2506 Danby Mountain Road, was reported at 1:34 a.m.
Dorset Fire Chief Shawn Hazelton said that when he arrived on the scene, the 50-foot by 100-foot log cabin structure was two stories tall with a full basement and it was fully involved with half of the second floor already collapsed.
With a metal roof holding the heat in, firefighters worked for close to two hours to get the initial knockdown and control of the fire.
MONTANA - Montana Highway Patrol said their 15 drones mean less disruption to traffic, which means everyone is a lot safer on the roads.
Trooper Trever Chase has been involved in the drone program since 2017 when it started. He said drones have changed the way they investigate fatal crash scenes. Prior to the drone program, we used what was called a Total Station, which was basically a 2-3 man team out there on scene basically surveying it: all the different evidence, the roadway, the tire marks and the vehicles themselves, Chase said. Now, the drone requires just a 1-2 man team. We don t need to shut down roadways. And it would go from about 1 1/2 hours being on scene with the Total Station to about 20-30 minutes with the drone.