Smoke From Montana's Elmo Fire Hangs Over Lake Mary Ronan

The Elmo Fire in Lake County, Montana, spanned 21,327 acres and was 30 percent contained as of Sunday, August 7, according to fire officials.

Residents in the Camp Tuffit and West Shore Road area remained under evacuation orders, fire officials said. Other area residents were under pre-evacuation warnings.

Fire officials said Lake Mary Ronan State Park was closed due to fire risk as of Sunday.

Video filmed by Kevin Curran on Saturday shows smoke from the Elmo Fire hanging over Lake Mary Ronan. Credit: Kevin Curran via Storyful

Video Transcript

KEVIN CURRAN: Hopefully this will be the last update that I have for the Elmo 2 fire. You got the Chinook out here doing some good work on kind of the smoldering stuff that's left over. That is as far North as it made it. It burned up that hill pretty good. You see there's a couple of hot spots left over. We got lucky. We're not out of the woods yet, but we got lucky. Big thanks to the fire crews that were-- and the emergency personnel that were out on this thing, because it could have gotten really ugly.

Hopefully this will be the last update that I have for the Elmo 2 fire. You got the Chinook out here doing some good work on kind of the smoldering stuff that's left over. That is as far North as it made it. It burned up that hill pretty good. You see there's a couple of hot spots left over. We got lucky. We're not out of the woods yet, but we got lucky. Big thanks to the fire crews that were-- and the emergency personnel that were out on this thing, because it could have gotten really ugly.