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Southeast Montana town evacuated as wildfire closes in

by Associated Press
| August 10, 2021 3:00 PM

BILLINGS (AP) — A small town in southeastern Montana was ordered evacuated Tuesday as strong winds drove the state's largest wildfire dangerously close to the community bordering the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, officials said.

Roughly 500 to 600 people living in Ashland and the surrounding area were ordered to leave, Rosebud County Sheriff Allen Fulton said...

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