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Looking forward to today's winds dying down. It's a pity that unfavorable conditions on McGregor Lake forced cancellation of the Lodge's annual ice fishing derby scheduled for this weekend. Our firefighters trained to be prepared to rescue anyone who fell through weak ice. That being said, most of them would be extremely grateful if nobody needs rescuing from any of...

Marion FD's Dispatch Stats for 2017 In 2016, the department responded to a total of 209 calls. The number of call-outs increased 22% by the end of 2017. Let us be grateful to our volunteers and staff for growing our department and their skills to answer the increasing need in our community for their services! Note: the eight "special event"...

On August 13, 2017, Craig Kempthorne, who is a member of the Marion Fire Auxiliary, took this video of amphibious aircraft scooping water out of Little Bitterroot Lake to fight the Tamarack Fire that started in Lincoln County just west of Island Lake during the night of a lightening storm on August 11th.

As many of you are now aware, there were new fire starts in the area this past weekend due to a lightening storm on Friday evening (08/11/2017). Crews are actively fighting these fires. The largest fire we have close to us is the Tamarack Fire burning west of Island Lake past the wildlife refuge. Size estimates are currently around 600...

Please, heed and obey the Stage II Fire Restrictions now in place.

Barring new fire starts, this will be the final fire update for this season, because the five fires near us are 100% contained!  248 personnel are working fire operations out here, but Thompson's Type II Incident Management Team breaks down fire camp tomorrow. A Type III organization will finish off the Lazier Creek 3 and Rogers Mountain fires. Kalispell and...

According to Thompson’s Type II Incident Management Team, 361 personnel are fighting fires in and around Marion Fire District territory. Fire crews are slowly being released and the fire camp at Marion School will probably shut down the day after tomorrow (Thursday 07/20/2017). Although the weather will continue to warm and dry out the area, no lightning storms are in...

According to Thompson’s Type II Incident Management Team, 436 personnel are fighting fires in and around Marion Fire District territory. That's down from a high of 483! The two fires out of the original five worrisome ones that still aren't completely contained are near containment. (For definitions of terms used in this report, please, go to our Wildfire Glossary web...