![<p><strong>Smoke from</strong> the Thompson Fire in Glacier National Park pours into the sky in this view from Lost Creek Road and Farm-to-Market Road in West Valley on Tuesday afternoon. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>](https://hagadone.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/ARTICLE_308119998_H1_0_VEBNABXLHBBP_t1170.jpg?5cc718665ab672dba93d511ab4c682bb370e5f86)
<p><strong>Smoke from</strong> the Thompson Fire in Glacier National Park pours into the sky in this view from Lost Creek Road and Farm-to-Market Road in West Valley on Tuesday afternoon. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>
August 11, 2015
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August 11, 2015 2:25 p.m.
Glacier Park fire explodes to 11,400 acres
As a boiling smoke plume rose to the east of the Flathead Valley on Tuesday afternoon, the calls started coming in to the Daily Inter Lake.