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...are now some 200,000 charred acres in the Bitterroot Valley, stretching south from Missoula to the Idaho line. Ravalli County Sheriff Perry Johnson estimated 500 to 800 dwellings have been evacuated in the scenic valley and at least 52 houses...
...in recent years a magnet for retirees and others who have sought refuge and beauty on the edges of the wilderness. Ravalli County, which includes the towns of Hamilton and Darby, was the state's fastest-growing region through the 1990s and...
...other homes affected by others fires burning over 207,000 acres of the valley remained under evacuation orders. Ravalli County Sheriff Perry Johnson said residents allowed to return home should keep personal belongings packed and not bring livestock...
...large area some 50 miles south of Hamilton, almost in Idaho, and covered about 100 homes, said Jim Chinn of the Ravalli County Sheriff's Department. While residents of some 900 houses have been allowed to return home, hundreds of others...
...their wives and kids, their families -- and spent their summer doing everything they could to save ours," Ravalli County Sheriff Perry Johnson said at a rally in Hamilton. "We can never thank you enough." Firefighters were mobilized...
...season has seen devastating fires in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, California, Idaho, Washington and now Montana. Ravalli County Sheriff Perry Johnson expected further evacuations and told residents to move livestock and prepare to get out...
...Christopherson said. In the Bitterroot Valley, a blaze pushed by 30- to 50-mph wind jumped a road Thursday. Ravalli County officials said some additional buildings were burned, but no dwellings were destroyed. Nearly 70 houses and cabins...
...fanned two major wildfires in Montana's Bitterroot Valley and prompted more evacuations Friday. Jim Chinn of the Ravalli County Sheriff's Department said many of the hundreds of residents forced out earlier are back in their homes, but he...