New statewide fire restrictions take effect Wednesday at midnight
New, statewide fire restrictions take effect at midnight on Wednesday.
They apply to all state and unincorporated private lands in nine counties, including:
Box Elder
Tooele
Open fires are off-limits. So are smoking (except under certain conditions), fireworks, and target shooting with tracer ammunition or exploding targets. Cutting, welding, or grinding metal in dry vegetation is prohibited. So is operating a motorcycle, ATV, chainsaw or other small internal combustion engine without an approved and working spark arrestor.
Review the order from the Department of Natural Resources here:
Violating the restrictions is punishable with a fine of up to $1,000 and even jail time.
The Alaska Type 1 Incident Management Team, two Alaska hotshot crews and more than a dozen Alaska Smokejumpers have been mobilized to the Lower 48 to assist with wildland fire management in the western United States.
The Alaska IMT, which consists of approximately 70 highly trained wildland firefighting personnel from multiple Alaska state and federal agencies, flew out on a chartered jet from the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) on Tuesday. The Team will be prepositioned in Boise, Idaho, home to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), to await an assignment.
Members of the Pioneer Peak Interagency Hotshot Crew board a jet from the National Interagency Coordination Center at Ted Stevens International Airport on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 for the flight to Boise, Idaho. Kale Casey/Alaska Incident Management Team
ELIZABETHTON â Seth Whitehead, 14, is working on a project that is not only important in his own life, but also should have an impact on the community.
It is a project he is undertaking as a key part of his effort to become an Eagle Scout. Even more important, his project is designed to help a community remember four young men who died while working to defend the town of Hampton from a forest fire on Jenkins Mountain on Feb. 27, 1954.
Whitehead said the four who were killed include 15-year-old Robert Simerly, a volunteer with the Hampton/Valley Forge Volunteer Fire Department, and three employees of the Tennessee Division of Forestry: Herman Carden, Kenneth Pierce, and Jerry Woods. All three were 19 years old. Somehow, most people in the community have no knowledge of the tragedy, and Whitehead wants to change that by leading an effort to raise funds to purchase a memorial for the four young men.
SALT LAKE CITY Northern Utah has seen 17 days of triple-digit heat so far this summer. The state s record of 100-degree days in one year is 21. And there s a good chance Utah could tie or surpass that number this year, said KSL TV meteorologist Grant Weyman.
A string of thunderstorms this week will give us a slight break from the 100 and above temperatures. But Utah is still above the average heat high for this time of year.
The hot days in Utah aren t expected to go away as drought conditions worsen. Salt Lake City experienced the hottest June on record, according to the National Weather Service.
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