Dunn Mtn. Assist Fire
Location: 30 Miles NE of Billings, MT
Specific Location: Lat 46° 41´ 26″ Lon 108° 20´ 50″
Date of Origin: 08/21/2008
Cause: lightning
Situation as of 09/01/2008 at 4:30 PM
Personnel: 204
Size: 102,383 acres
Percent contained: 100%
Costs to Date: $2,384,877
Events: Due to rain during the day and all last night demobilization started and went throughout the day.
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Situation as of 08/31/2008 at 6:00 PM
Personnel: 398
Size: 102,383 acres
Percent contained: 60%
Costs to Date: $1,848,482
Ongoing cooperative efforts between Incident Management Team, Musselshell and Yellowstone Counties.
We have not posted regarding this megafire because we thought it would be contained much sooner. But now it has gone mega (100,000+ acres), so it deserves mention.
