Fire 70 percent contained by Monday

A public meeting about the East Fork Fire Monday afternoon in the Havre High School auditorium gave local and outside officials the chance to update citizens and answer questions about the fire that is number eight in priority in Montana.

One person asked Type 1 Incident Management Team Commander Kim Martin why the fire, which ignited Aug. 27, was allowed to grow so large.

"This thing should've never gotten this big," the person said. "Who was in charge of this thing? Nobody."

Bob Jones of Bureau of Indian Affairs and Rocky Mountain Regional Office Fire Plans answered the question, saying that...