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Park Creek Fire: Evacuations Orders, Community Meeting Tonight

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The Lewis and Clark County Sheriff's department has issued an evacuation order for the 16 residences of upper Stonewall Creek Road. The residences are threatened by lightening-caused Park Creek Fire burning in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National forest north of Lincoln. 

The eight square mile fire is burning in timber stands with large dead and downed trees. 

There is a community meeting tonight on the Park Creek Fire at 7 p.m. at Hooper Park in Lincoln. 

Full InciWeb fact sheet and data report for the Park Creek Fire can be found here

Kay Erickson has been working in broadcasting in Billings for more than 20 years. She spent well over a decade as news assignment editor at KTVQ-TV before joining the staff at YPR. She is a graduate of Northern Illinois University, with a degree in broadcast journalism. Shortly after graduation she worked in Great Falls where she was one of the first female sports anchor and reporter in Montana.