On the week of 9-11, the U.S. Post Office chose Missoula, Montana the home of the Smokejumpers Center as the one place in America to introduce a new stamp honoring first responders.
***A personal story*** As is my custom while preparing my Montana Morning news program, I was listening to the police scanner early in the morning last week, when I heard the 9-1-1 operator issue a call saying a person was threatening to take their own life...
At Hamilton's Washington Friday School Friday, the day was sunny, the kids were prepared and the emergency was imaginary. The 240 kindergarten and 1st grade kids participated in a full emergency drill at about 1 p.m. April 26, with a simulated natural gas leak in the schools heating system...