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Polson Rural Fire kept busy on Friday, Oct. 9, responding to two brush fires and one motor vehicle accident. Above, firefighers fight a fire on Hillcrest Drive Friday afternoon, discovered by the homeowner when she returned home and found a large brush pile in her backyard in flames. Polson Rural Fire responded with two wildland trucks and and a 2,000 gallon tender to extinguish the flames. The fire appears to have started from spontaneous combustion in a large pile of grass clippings.

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