At least seven suspicious fires in Glacier National Park’s North Fork region have destroyed an historic patrol cabin roughly eight miles north of Polebridge.
National Park Service, Flathead County and Montana state firefighters teamed up to fight the fires, which were reported early Thursday morning. Glacier spokeswoman Gina Kerzman called the fires suspicious, adding investigators from the FBI and Park Service Investigative Services Branch are involved.
The 1928 Ford Creek patrol cabin just beyond Round Prairie was a total loss, Kerzman said. This is a Glacier administrative cabin, and not the popular summer overnight rental for floaters on the North Fork Flathead River owned by the U.S. Forest Service.
All the fires had been contained or extinguished by Friday.