Boone County Fire District Wildland Firefighters on Front Lines in Montana.
Asst. Chief Ken Hines - Thursday, August 14, 2003
The Boone County Fire District wildland fire team deployed on Sunday to Montana with Missouri Department of Conservation fire crew has been assigned to the Gold 1 fire located nine miles northeast of Corvallis, Montana (south of Missoula near the Idaho border). As of Thursday, the fire had burned roughly 3,800 acres. The fire crew has been assigned to the 12-hour dayshift and is on the fire line from sunup to sundown. The Gold 1 fire is burning in the Bitterroot National Forest with torching and short uphill runs observed in lodge pole pine and Douglas fir.
The Fire District has been involved in the U.S. Forest Service wildland fire program since 1988, sending firefighters or fire engines to the western United States nearly every year since then. A second Boone County Fire District wildland fire crew is on standby for deployed should the fire conditions warrant more fire crews.
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