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Wild Bill Mountain fire

Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 5 months AGO
by Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake
| July 30, 2014 5:58 PM

A helicopter lowers a bucket into water in Browns Meadow on  Wednesday afternoon for a fire on Wild Bill Mountain southwest of Kalispell. U.S. Forest Service and Montana Department of Natural Resources firefighters responded to the one-acre fire south of Kila. The suspected cause of the fire is a lightning strike. 

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