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A mix of local and county fire departments, neighbors and businesses responded to the 3,200 acre Great Divide Fire north of Lindsay on Jan. 13, 2021.
Firefighters have been battling large, wind pushed wildfires in central Montana that have destroyed several homes and outbuildings.
The National Weather Service’s warning of rapidly spreading wildfires proved to be true on Wednesday with large fires in McCone, Musselshell and Garfield counties. We can see wildland fires almost any time of the year, says Al Nash with the Montana Dakota Division of the Bureau of Land Management. But the circumstances we’ve had in recent days with a drought, limited snow cover and extraordinarily high winds are really quite rare.