We brought our 2025 to a close with not one, but TWO structure fires with mutual aid departments. We started early on the morning with a house fire with Columbia Falls, Evergreen, and Whitefish. We reset all of our vehicles and were ready when a large explosion at a wood mill in Kalispell called nearly every department in the Flathead Valley to a HUGE fire last night. Our chief was head of water Ops and masterfully directed 19 water tenders to get water to the engines and ladder trucks fighting