
Firefighter goes missing battling wildfire in Montana as more than 86 wildfires burn across US
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Authorities are searching for a firefighter who went missing while battling a wildfire in Montana Sunday, officials said.
The firefighter was working the Granite Pass Complex Fire near Montana's border with Idaho when he disappeared, a news release from the official information site for the fire said. The Granite Pass Complex Fire is among several burning in the US, mostly in the west. At least 86 active large wildfires have charred nearly 1.5 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). This year, 36,467 fires have burned a total of 2,770,454 acres across the United States, NIFC said.
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east of Venezuela – the admiral who oversaw the operation told lawmakers on Thursday according to two sources with direct knowledge of his remarks.

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to two sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings.











