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Evening Newscast 08-20-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Searchers have located a single-engine airplane that crashed in the Big Belt Mountains just northeast of Canyon Ferry Lake.

Crews are working to keep a wildfire from spreading to the small community of Essex on the southern border of Montana's Glacier National Park.

West of Essex near the Idaho line, an additional 30 to 40 homes north of Noxon were evacuated today, a day after fire officials told residents in about 14 homes to leave.

Montana health officials are hearing from people in public meetings this week about the state's plan to expand Medicaid.

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