A fire started Labor Day morning northwest of Helena had burned over 75 acres, according to an update on mtfireinfo.org Tuesday. As of Monday night there were 75 personnel at the Murray fire, named after nearby Murray Creek. No structures had been burned, no injuries were reported and no evacuations ordered, fire officials said. According to mtfireinfo.org, there are now 59 active fires burning in Montana and there have been 1,703 fires so far this year, twenty of which started this week.
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