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A Red flag warning remains in effect until midnight MDT Tuesday night for low humidities, hot temperatures, strong gusty winds and wind shift with a cold front for most of south central Montana...

Great footage of the fire south of Bozeman that erupted yesterday. It's rugged terrain and a little windy on this National Forest Land. Narrated by the videographer.

Hot, dry weather is culminating in yet another Fire Warning for our area through this Wednesday. Details here:

The US Forest Service has identified the firefighter killed while combating a wildfire in Idaho Sunday afternoon as Anne Veseth (VEE-sith), 20, a seasonal firefighter for the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests.

Fire Weather Watch in effect from Tuesday afternoon through Tuesday evening for gusty winds and low relative humidity for fire weather zones 114... 115... 117 and 118...

Tuesday evening a house fire burned the entire top floor of an apartment complex on Michael Grove in Bozeman. Details are still slim on the cause and the damages. I live just down the street from the building and I was able to snap a few photos of the damage.

There is a Red flag warning in effect from noon today to midnight MDT tonight low humidities... hot temperatures... and increasing thunderstorm activity for all of south central Montana and parts of north central Wyoming...

A Red flag warning remains in effect from 2 PM this afternoon to 8 PM MDT Friday for low humidities... strong gusty winds... and wind shift with a cold front for all of south central Montana... most of southeast Montana... and parts of north central Wyoming...

Yes, it was pretty bad and kind of a miracle nobody was hurt. 800 Block of West Villard (and North 8th).

More details to come regarding where this fire stands this morning, but here's what we do know:

Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks has reopened the three fishing access sites on the Madison River that were closed last week following the Bear Trap 2 fire: Damselfly, Black's Ford, and Greycliff; fire restrictions remain in place.

Arron Booth Photography captured a haunting time lapse video of the Pony area fire in southwest Montana. See it here: