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The National Park Service has some videos of the fire situation. The most recent are at the bottom of their page.

On August 3rd, our reporter received a tour of the Robert Fire Incident Command Post (1 minute, 6 seconds).


On August 3rd, our roving reporter interviewed a helicopter crew as they described and demonstrated an aerial ignition device used to set burnouts (2 minutes, 38 seconds).


On August 3rd, a public tour occurred at the Robert Fire Incident Base. The Schley family, Montana exports presently living in Connecticut, and Bob Boyd from Whitefish MT, were interviewed by our information officer (42 seconds).


One of our information officers was on hand on July 31st and recorded a CanadAir CL-215 "scooper" plane as it gathered water from Lake McDonald to apply to the Robert Fire (17 seconds).

(Video courtesy of Katherine Sanchez Meador)


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