An apprehensive person called Whitefish Police Department on Baker Avenue requesting extra patrol because with all the tourists in the area they were “very concerned that people will drop dead of heat.”

Someone wanted police to check on an elderly man who was holding a cardboard sign and walking down Wisconsin Avenue because he was swaying, almost falling over and appeared to have heatstroke. It was later discerned the man was dehydrated, disoriented and complaining of heart trouble.

Dispatchers called a woman back who had hung up on them on Lamb Lane. The woman said she was called to report a dog left in a vehicle, but instead took the matter into her own hands by opening the door and letting the dog out.

A boat on a trailer, not attached to a vehicle, was reported as having been parked on the corner of Columbia East Second Street and blocking a bike path for at least a week.

Two or three possibly caged hound dogs were heard barking on U.S. 93 West and allegedly had been doing so off and on for two months.

Graffiti was discovered on a retaining wall at a Baker Avenue business.

An electric scooter that belonged to someone’s disabled son on Karrow Avenue had reportedly been taken from their garage.

A city employee was bit by a dog on East Second Street.

A frustrated bar patron on Central Avenue called police because the employees would not give him his ID back alleging it was fake. It was later verified the ID was legitimate.

Two males were seen breaking a fan on East Second Street. Then men ran into an apartment when police showed up, but would not come to the door.

Someone had enough and called police to report people drinking and being loud on an outdoor patio at a hotel on Spokane Avenue after their futile attempt to ask the people to quiet down. Police advised the revelers to “shut it down and return to the room.”

A parent said their disabled son’s electric scooter was stolen from their garage.

Kalispell Police Department ran to the rescue to put out a fire that had started in the garden of a Main Street coffee business.

Columbia Falls Police Department received a report that a large, concrete donkey figurine was stolen from a Fourth Avenue East North residence.

An upset mother on C Street East North said her 13-year-old son yelled at her so the dad allegedly choked him.

About eight sheets of plywood and other debris fell off of a vehicle trailer in an intersection of Montana 40 West.

A dog owner on Martha Road was cited after police received multiple reports of a dog running loose up and down the road while the owner was at a rummage sale.

An assertive grocery store employee on Ninth Street West told police they refused to sell an intoxicated man alcohol and had concerns the man would drive. The man grabbed some drinking water from his car and started walking to his “buddies house across the street.”  

West Valley Fire Department responded to an illegal burn on Stillwater Road.

Evergreen Fire Department responded to a burnpile/recreational fire on North Cedar Drive in Kalispell.

Creston Fire Department responded to a grass/brush/wildland fire on Bench Drive in Kalispell.

Smith Valley Fire Department completed an outside smoke investigation on Batavia Lane in Kalispell.

Creston and Bigfork fire departments responded to a grass/brush/wildland fire on McCaffery Road in Bigfork.

Kalispell Fire Department responded to a grass/brush/wildland fire on U.S. 93 South.