text: It's not just hurricanes causing disaster.  It's fires in the West, but if you follow the usual news sources, no one knows.  Finally a national publication has an article on the fires in the West:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fires-in-the-west-hurricanes-down-south_us_59b2db6fe4b0dfaafcf7dccc?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
  
  Montana currently has major fires still out of control totaling over one million acres.  I have spent that last two months watching two DC10's fly out of Helena with fire retardant for a major fire fifty miles from here.  There are only three such planes in the US.  They weren't mentioned at all until the fire in LA.  We have lost two fire fighters. The Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and our own Senator Steve Daines came to Montana and blamed these fires on 'Environmental Lawyers'.  They totally ignored the Pine Beetle kill that has ravaged our forests for years because our winters are too warm to kill them. Colorado Springs folks know this too well.