Residents watch as flames from the Robertson Draw fire burn above Red Lodge, Mont., Tuesday evening, June 15, 2021. Wildfires burning in Montana exploded in size over the past 24 hours and triggered evacuations of people from rural areas as scorching heat and heavy winds stoked the blazes. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)
June 17, 2021
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June 18, 2021 7 a.m.
State aircraft sidelined after Montana fire helicopter crash
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana firefighting agency imposed a 48-hour stand down of all its aircraft after a helicopter crash landed and burned in heavy winds.