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<td>Bridger Foothills Fire Update</td>
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<td>Tue, 8 Sep 2020 16:50:24 -0600</td>
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<td>Ted Mather <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tmather@bridgercanyonfiremt.gov"><tmather@bridgercanyonfiremt.gov></a></td>
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<div><b>Residents of the Bridger Canyon Fire District, </b></div>
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My apologies for delays in communication, our volunteers
have been working long hours in both our initial response
and the sustaining activities that immediately followed. <br>
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I have attached the latest official status report from the
Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team who is
currently lead Public Information source for this large
scale event. <br>
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At 7000+ acres this fire was elevated from a Type 3
Incident Command System (ICS) to a Type 1 Incident, the
highest ICS level. While our department led the initial
response to the fire near the M, we immediately escalated
the severity level and requested mutual aid from the
forest service, aviation assets and local fire agencies.
Subsequently our department has been integrated into the
overall effort consisting of USFS, Fish & Wildlife,
Montana DNRC, Gallatin County Emergency Management,
Gallatin County Sheriff's office and our local fire mutual
aid responders: Gallatin County Fire, Central Valley Fire,
Bozeman FD, Fort Ellis Fire, Gallatin Gateway, Big Sky
Fire, Three Forks Fire, Hyalite Fire, Manhattan Fire and
Amsterdam Fire. The out of state departments involved are
part of the USFS response framework. <br>
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Our department is currently working in an active structure
protection role while also supporting the overall damage
assessment activity with the Gallatin County Sheriff's
office and US Forest Service.</div>
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<td>8081 Bridger Canyon Rd,
Bozeman, MT 59715 <br>
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