From the Wednesday, September 6, 2006 online edition of the Hungry Horse News . . .
The Sun Dog fire, which has been simmering north of Columbia Falls for weeks, has been handed over to the Hungry Horse/Glacier View District for day-to-day management.
A Type II overhead team led by Tom Heintz stepped down early Tuesday. That team built large fire breaks on the fire's flanks and did small burnouts to keep the fire from spreading.
Early this week crews were doing mechanical brushing along Forest Service Road 317 to create even more fire breaks.
The weather forecast is still calling for hot, dry weather, so there still is some potential with this fire, which is listed at 70 percent contained.
It is about 20 miles Northwest of Columbia Falls and about eight miles from the nearest home near Coal and South Coal Creeks.
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