Burned Areas Reopen
Incident: Pattengail Creek Wildland Fire
Released: 10/1/2007
BURNED AREAS REOPEN
WISDOM, MONT., Oct. 1, 2007-The areas burned by the Rat Creek fire west of Wisdom and the Pattengail Creek fire, southwest of Wise River, will reopen to the public first thing on Tuesday (October 2).
Both fires were in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
The two fires were declared "contained" on September 25, and fire crews have now completed work on the two blazes.
Hunters and others entering the burned areas should be alert for falling trees, officials said.
For more information on the Rat Creek fire, go to http://www.inciweb.org/incident/925/
Information on the Pattengail Creek fire is at http://www.inciweb.org/incident/806/
Or, call the Forest Service in either Wisdom at (406) 689-3243 or in Wise River at (406) 832-3178.
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