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A new national climate assessment paints a dismal picture of the Southwest over the next decade, as the rapidly warming climate drives food shortages, intensifies droughts, floods, wildfires and diseases.

In past years, the city has made deep investments into social services but little into fire. The fire department has requested a new station in the Mullan area for the past four years – a request the city has failed to fund.

The Missoula Fire Department extinguished a structure fire in a shuttered house frequented by the homeless on Saturday afternoon just before 1 p.m.

The blazes in the Six Rivers National Forest covered just under 84,000 acres on Thursday, or around 131 square miles.

Weeks without rain and rising temperatures prompted fire agencies across Missoula County on Tuesday to increase the fire danger to High.

Dealing with severe floods and debris flows after two fires last year, multiple levels of Arizona government are working to better protect communities from future impact.

The Missoula Fire Department stopped a fire from spreading deeper into the Pattee Creek Market on Tuesday in a response that drew 20 firefighters and 10 units.

Airplanes and helicopters have been deployed to battle the Tunnel 5 Fire on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington

The Lolo National Forest reports the Lolo Hotshots have been working with local firefighters from Alberta on the Long Lake fire.

Missoula County will receive a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Forest Service to mitigate the risk of wildfire in the urban interface.