Managers said the fire was 95 percent contained by day’s end. If progress continues at the same rate, incident commanders will begin to downsize over the next few days and send some crews back to their home units or to other fires as needed.
Many of the firefighters and command staff were unaware that the Lindbergh Lake fire had an international component to it until Saturday.
Alfred Boer, from Northern Cape, and Phumzile Gininda, from Mpumalanga, South Africa, arrived a week ago in an exchange program between the two countries. They will be working with the Great Northern Fire Crew until mid-September, performing all of the firefighting duties and natural resource projects that need to be completed throughout the summer.
With the Lindbergh Lake fire, Alfred and Phumzile have been thrown into some of the toughest terrain Montana has to offer. However, South Africa has some tough terrain of its own, and Alfred and Phumzile have contributed their skills to the tremendous effort of the rest of the fire crews in fire suppression activities, fire managers said.
For more information on the Lindbergh Lake fire, call (406) 754-3023 between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m., or visit http://www.inciweb.org for more information.
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