A structure fire in the Summit County town of Wanship on Sunday spread to surrounding terrain, threatening other buildings and prompting mandatory evacuations along Old Lincoln Highway.
In Salt Lake County, another wildfire sparked Sunday afternoon, burning about 15 acres in the area of Interstate 80 and 7200 West, according to the Salt Lake City Fire Department.
Members of the public were advised to avoid the area Sunday evening. Officials suspect the fire was human-caused.The fire along Interstate 15 south of Santaquin was discovered just before 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and grew from 36 to 76 acres overnight. But Utah wildfire officials said the blaze had been 80% contained by about 2 p.m. on Sunday and reported that crews were “confident” the fire would be contained by the evening.
The Precision Fire, which has burned 76 acres south of Santaquin as of Sunday afternoon, was expected to be fully contained by Sunday evening.The fire about a mile east of Stockton started July 9 and had burned about 4,185 acres as of Sunday, when it was considered 82% contained. . According to a probable cause statement, the four started a fire at a campsite — which investigators determined was where the wildfire began — then “left abruptly.”
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