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Montana Wildfire Update For July 31, 2021

The Broadwater County Sheriff issued a mandatory evacuation Friday night near the Woods Creek Fire for east of Highway 284, everything from Gravely Lane south through Dry Gulch.

The sheriff says the Ray Creek area should be on high alert.

The Woods Creek Fire is burning about 12,300 acres near Boulder Lakes in the Big Belt Mountains.

According to incident commanders for the fire on inciweb, evacuation orders are still in effect for the Upper Duck Creek road, Upper Gurnett Creek road, and Upper Dry Gulch Road.

Evacuations remain in effect for Forest Service recreation sites: Thompson Guard Station, Gipsy Lake Campground, and the Atlanta Creek Road.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire says an evacuation order has been issued to homes below a fire near Highway 35, about eight miles east of Polson.

The division of fire says the Boulder 2700 Fire is burning in the Mission Mountains east of Flathead Lake.

Homes below the fire on Highway 35 are being evacuated. At 10:50 a.m. CSKT Division of Fire Information Officer C.T. Camel said it was unclear how many residences were impacted by the evacuation order.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Department and local rural fire departments are working on the evacuations.

The B-2700 road off Highway 35 is closed to reduce risk to firefighters and the public. The fire is estimated at 150 acres.

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