New fire reporting system outlined in fire council meeting

The Hill County Fire Council had their biannual meeting Wednesday, where Bureau of Land Management Lewistown Duty Officer Don Pyrah presented a new system for filing initial reports on fires, and County Fire Warden Amanda Frickel suggested some areas of operational improvement and a few new procedures.

Pyrah said the new online reporting system is built so fire departments can submit initial reports for fires easily from a phone, a streamlined new system he said will be faster and create more accurate data to pull information from.

He said the report will ask for the county the fire is in...