Firefighters respond to restaurant fire

Whitefish Fire Department responded to a kitchen fire around 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Ciao Mambo, 234 Second St. E.

Whitefish Fire Department Captain Cole Hadley said no injuries were reported and restaurant employees were outside the building by the time crews arrived.

It may have been a grease fire, but the cause is still under investigation according to Hadley.

Big Mountain Fire and Rescue, Evergreen Fire Rescue, Columbia Falls Fire Department and West Valley Fire and Rescue also responded.

Someone told Kalispell Police Department an intoxicated man was “beating up his vehicle” in a parking lot when he was reportedly seen punching the car and talking to himself.

A resident reportedly went out to her porch to confront a woman she saw through a camera. The woman supposedly told the resident she liked her pumpkin. When the resident went back inside and looked at the camera again, the pumpkin and lantern were gone.

An underage youth attempted to steal a cartful of beer. He was cited and released.

A customer was purportedly heard bragging that he “just beat the crap out of” someone at a bar and was “showing off his bloody knuckles.”

A woman allegedly left a Treeline Road store through a fire exit carrying a large amount of new clothes and started running so fast that she “ran out of her shoes” and broke a mirror off a vehicle. The woman allegedly threw the clothes in a pickup and left. The person calling in the report supposedly found a sweater and a purse full of needles in some bushes.

A church was reportedly broken into and everything was “torn up” and computers were missing.

A woman was uncomfortable after a former roommate purportedly showed up claiming they had tracked down the man who stole her swing set and said he had a rifle with him on his bicycle and they wanted to know if she also had a rifle stolen.

A bus driver told police four girls were reportedly getting ready to fight. The parties were separated.

A woman allegedly shoplifted three bottles of alcohol and possibly some shot glasses.

A woman reportedly heard that her brother told his drug-using friends they could burglarize a home for “drug money.”

A manager told police a man who was “known to steal” came into a store and left. The manager was unsure if he stole something this time, but noted he had filed a report with police regarding a $200 toothbrush he “stole already.”

Someone claiming to be concerned about a dog reportedly watched a woman leave the dog alone and went over to check on it. When the woman came back she supposedly yelled at them for stalking her.

A man was awoken from his slumber by his neighbor’s having an argument when he heard crashing, banging and a man yelling “shut up.” Officers went to the apartment, but didn’t hear anything inside.

A passerby reported the back window of a vehicle was smashed in and they thought it appeared someone “busted the vehicle up” with a bat.

A vehicle was reportedly vandalized on Woodland Park Drive. The passenger window was shattered, but the window tinting was supposedly holding it together.