Burned boy returning from Seattle

A 2-year-old boy burned in a mobile home fire Friday night in Hungry Horse was headed home Tuesday.

Hunter Moskaloff, 2, was set to fly back to Glacier Park International Airport with his mother, Tasha Anthony, 22. Hunter had been treated at a burn center in Seattle.

Cindy Gadeberg, the boy’s aunt, said the boy is doing well.

Three fire departments responded to the fire that destroyed the home at 595 First St. after a call came in around 5:20 p.m.

Gadeberg said the fire was started by Hunter, who pressed a red button on a torch lighter. That ignited some newspapers in a wooden box, she said.

Fire officials suspected a boy started the fire with a lighter.

There were seven people in the mobile home at the time. All got out safely, although Shirley Knight, Gadeberg’s mother, had a seizure a short time later.

Knight was treated at Kalispell Regional Medical Center and released Friday, Gadeberg said.

In addition to Hunter Moskaloff, Anthony and Knight, others in the home were: Terence Moskaloff, 19; Kalynn Moskaloff, 13; Nicholas Moskaloff, 10; and Trenton Moskaloff, 1.

Gadeberg, who is Anthony’s sister and Knight’s daughter, was not present at the time of the fire.

An account has been set up at Freedom Bank in Columbia Falls in the name of “The Knight Family.”

Donations can be sent to: Freedom Bank, 530 9th St., Columbia Falls, MT 59912.

The bank’s phone number is 892-1776.