Desiree Brewer embraces one of the family's two dogs, Montana, a 1-year-old yellow Lab mix who alerted the family to an early-morning fire that destroyed their house along Tronstad Road. The family ...

Aug. 31—Desiree Brewer didn't think twice about jumping off a balcony, realizing it was her only escape from the flames that engulfed her family's Kalispell home on Aug. 20. "I was the last person out ...