An air tanker drops a load of fire retardant at treetop level on a wildfire in a rural residential area near Kalispell in summer 2001. Many homes in the area were saved by the drops of fire retardant.
December 27, 2009
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Editor’s note: Today marks the first installment of a Daily Inter Lake series tracing major stories from the past decade.