Yesterday afternoon around 2 a fire broke out ‘about a mile up Roaring Lion road’ from a NF trailhead (according to the Missoulian), roughly 5 miles south of Hamilton.
Low humidity and high winds pushed a blowup that had chewed through 2000 acres by the evening; structures have been destroyed and evacuations are in place.
A Type 1 Incident Team will take over this morning; you can follow along on the fire’s InciWeb page here.
We’ve reached out to our long time Bitterroot compadre Al the Pal but he’s been a bit busy ferrying livestock the past 18 hours or so…
Image via InciWeb.
