Arson suspected in Kalispell blaze
<p>Jake Hall, right, and members of the Kalispell Fire Department respond to a structure fire at the intersection of Second Avenue West and Sixth Street West in Kalispell on Monday afternoon. The fire, in a detached garage, was reported at 2:24 p.m.</p>
<p>Flames rise up at a structure fire in a detached garage along the alley between Second and Third Avenues West on Monday.</p>
<p>Kalispell Fire Chief Dave Dedman, left, assesses the scene as smoke pours from a detached garage structure on Monday.</p>
<p>Firefighters from the Evergreen Fire Department arrive to help battle a structure fire in a detached garage on Monday.</p>
A fire broke out in a detached garage behind a house on the corner of Sixth Street West and Second Avenue West in Kalispell around 2:45 p.m. on Monday. Several separate witnesses say they saw a group of what appeared to be high school-aged boys running away from the scene right before the fire broke out.
Evergreen and Kalispell fire departments responded to the call of a fully engulfed structure. Upon their arrival, the departments were able to contain the blaze to the garage.
“It appears to be a human-started fire,” Kalispell Police Chief Roger Nasset said. “We’re interviewing suspects.”
No one was in the garage at the time of the fire, and there were no reported injuries.