Easter Sunday was busy for emergency services.
The scanner was busy with fights reported, domestic incidents involving guns, and vandalism.
However, nothing was more a burden were the fires.
This past weekend was filled with numerous fires deliberately set. The smallest fires reported included garbage cans and abandoned homes already burned.
During Easter Sunday, worshipers at the First Baptist Church woke up to find their van with all of the windows broken on one side of the vehicle.
In mid afternoon, a report came in for a fire south of Poplar. Dry conditions and wind spread the flames north and east up hill toward numerous homes. Conditions became too dangerous for residents on B Street East, and they were forced to leave.
Railway service was also halted during the large fires.
On Monday, Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure issued a statement from his office thanking the fire crews and other emergency workers.
A firetruck from Culbertson was called in to help with the fire. 
Residential people came out to stop fire from reaching their homes. 
The fires brought out people from their homes and to the East End to check out the situation. 
A man puts out the flames from a blaze inching closer to residential homes. 
The Culbertson Fire Department was called in to help put out the flames. Several departments including Culbertson, Wolf Point, Poplar, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 
As the fires south of Poplar burned this past Easter, many people were coming out of their houses to witness the event, including a lot of drivers who made getting around difficult for fire crews. 
As flames climbed higher from the burning brush, wind sucked into the flames created this “fire tornado.” 
A firetruck races toward the start of a grass fire south of Poplar. 
The Poplar Fire Department nearly lost two people in a wild fire this past week. The fire fighters were saved before the entire area went up in smoke. 
Carla Lovan, left, and Kenny Smoker work to extinguish burning grass coming dangerously close to residential homes. 
Over this past weekend, a large section of trees south of Poplar was reported burning. Two firefighters were engulfed by flames and had to be taken to the hospital.
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