Officers with the Whitefish Police Department shot and killed a problem bear in town Wednesday. The black bear was located in a tree after having come into town and going after unsecured garbage — an ongoing problem in the town according to a wildlife manager with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

Officers responded to fireworks calls on Voerman Road, Oak Street, Green Place and Idaho Avenue.

A vehicle was reported stolen on U.S. 93 West.

A fight was reported on U.S. 93 South.

Firefighters with the Whitefish Fire Department responded to a home on Willow Brook Close, where some helpful neighbors saved a garage.

According to Fire Chief Tom Kennelly, bushes next to the garage caught fire after firework debris landed in them. The fire then spread up the outside wall of the garage, reaching above the roof. Neighbors noticed the fire, rushed over with garden hoses and were able to put it out. The residents were not home.

An incident in which three teenage boys were reported to the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office for smashing the window out of a door with bolt cutters turned out not to be what it seemed. Responding deputies discovered the three were adults with the Hungry Horse Fire Department.

The fire chief told deputies that he was the only person with a key to the Veterans of Foreign Wars building and was not in town, so he gave the men permission to break in and retrieve tables and chairs for a barbecue.

Deputies responded to several fireworks calls over the holiday.

A Harmony Road resident reported someone was setting off sparkler bombs so loud they were rattling his windows.

A Tamarack Lane resident in Columbia Falls reported someone inside the mobile home park shooting some sort of cannon or fireworks that were much louder than normal.

Several youths were reported lighting fireworks that were hitting the window of a home on Conrad Drive.

People were reported shooting off fireworks in the direction of a house on Montana 35 in Bigfork.

A Willow Glen Drive resident reported being allergic to the sulfur in fireworks.

Fireworks woke up a West Reserve Drive resident.

A North Fork Road resident in Columbia Falls reported people were shooting off fireworks on Forest Service property.

An irate woman who accidentally called 911 berated dispatchers with several expletives when they called her back.

A group of boaters on a lake near McCaffery Road in Bigfork were reported for drinking and exposing themselves to people.

A group of people who rented a boat on Flathead Lake were reported for buzzing the docks and speeding in the no-wake zone.

A group of five men and two women were seen fighting on a boat on Flathead Lake near Lakeside.

A person was arrested for assaulting an officer and resisting arrest on Hungry Horse Boulevard in Hungry Horse.

Deputies were called to a Trails End Drive home for a 14-year-old girl who was “wasted” after her father tried to get her to drink a whole bottle of alcohol so she would feel bad in the morning.

Beer cans were seen falling out of the back of a truck heading into Kalispell on Kila Road.

A cleaning crew at a hotel on Montana 35 in Bigfork found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in a room.

An Eagle Bend Drive resident reported a woman who lives next door accused them of killing her husband, who died the prior week.

A golfer was nearly struck by an errant firework near Eagle Bend Drive in Bigfork.

A stereo faceplate and change were stolen from an unlocked vehicle on Maple Drive.

Tools were stolen from a tool box on U.S. 2 East in Coram.

The Kalispell Police Department was kept busy responding to fireworks calls throughout the holiday.

Officers responded to Ninth Avenue West, First Avenue East North, Great View Drive, Empire Loop, Hawthorn Avenue, East Idaho Street, Seventh Avenue West, Liberty Street, South Woodland Drive, Carnegie Drive, Fifth Avenue East, 14th Street East, Bing Court, East California Street, Second Avenue West, Eighth Avenue West, Merganser Drive, Northwest Lane, Sixth Avenue West, U.S. 93 North and West Utah Street.

Officers also responded to a flaming mailbox on Winchester Street, which melted after a sparkler bomb was set off inside.

Someone broke into an office building on U.S. 2 West by smashing a window and laying a blanket over the broken glass.

The Columbia Falls Police Department responded to two fireworks calls on Grace Road, two calls on Third Avenue East, one call on Third Avenue West and one on Nucleus Avenue.

Officers detained a man with an unloaded gun after a fight at an apartment on Fourth Avenue West. Another man had been daring the man to shoot him.

A man was seen trying to break into a vehicle in a parking lot on Nucleus Avenue.

A pair of bicycles were stolen on Third Avenue West.