One person suffered a minor burn injury in a house fire early Friday.
The Billings Police Department said on social media the fire at 30 Redrock Drive in the Golden Meadows mobile home park was reported at 3:16 a.m.
The home was "actively burning with visible flames" when fire crews arrived, police said.
Two occupants of the home were able to exit, with one person suffering a minor burn injury.
Fire crews were able to contain and extinguish the blaze, and an "investigation into the cause of the fire will be conducted once it is safe to enter the structure."
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The escalation of extreme wildfires globally has prompted a critical examination of wildfire management strategies. A new study from the University of Montana reveals how fire suppression ensures that wildfires will burn under extreme conditions at high severity, exacerbating the impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation. The study used computer simulations to show that attempting to suppress all wildfires results in fires burning with more severe ecological impacts, with accelerated increases in burned area beyond those expected from fuel accumulation or climate change.
"Fire suppression has unintended consequences," said lead author Mark Kreider, a Ph.D. candidate in the forest and conservation sciences program at UM.
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Officials with Phillips 66 refinery in Billings have reported the cause and initial investigation that led to a series of fires with black smoke that belched into the skies on Feb. 9.
In reports submitted to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and obtained through a public information request, senior environmental consultant Matt Evans of Phillips 66 said hydrocarbons that should have been cleared during the “coking process” — to remove a solid residue — accidentally remained in the refining process too long and the volatile fluids caught a coke pit on fire, not once, but twice, reports the Daily Montanan. Billings residents saw black smoke pouring into a Friday afternoon sky in February, but likely did not notice a second fire later that evening because it happened during the night, against the backdrop of an already dark sky.
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