HELENA – The Bitterroot National Forest is reporting its first fires of the summer season.
Rangers say fire crews responded to a wildfire late Thursday afternoon in the Jack Creek area of the Sleeping Child drainage.
The Forest Service say the fire was approximately six acres in size when 17 firefighters arrived to contain it, and does not know how it started. Rainfall helped Friday, but crews expected to remain on site through the weekend.
On Friday afternoon, a lightning storm sparked another small fire south of the confluence of the East Fork and West Fork of the Bitterroot River. Crews also responded to that blaze.