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Fire, blizzard devastate area

Some of the area's top stories in 2017

Editor’s note: This corrects the location of a vehicle-caused grass fire that resulted in the death of an Ohio woman.

The biggest news in this part of north-central Montana this year was fires - huge fires.

One of the first major wildfires in the state was the July Fire that charred 11,699 acres in the Little Rocky Mountains, leading to evacuation orders for the towns of Zortman and Landusky.

Many other fires occurred, including a grass fire north and slightly east of Gildford caused by a vehicle driving off-road that led to the death of an Ohio woman, a 1,500 acre fire north of Joplin...

 

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