A new wildfire sparked in Sevier County. According to the Fishlake National Forest Facebook page, firefighters responded to the Rock Canyon 2 Fire, which started Aug. 22 on the face of Cove Mountain, east of Annabella, on the Fishlake National Forest, Richfield Ranger District. The fire has now been 100% […]
The Widemouth 2 Fire behavior has been upgraded to catastrophic after jumping containment lines. According to a press release from the U.S. Forest Service, “with the quick fire growth, it would be too dangerous to put firefighters in front of this fire. No amount of resources will stop this forward […]
(Millard County, UT) — A new wildfire has sparked in the central Utah area. According to state officials, the Widemouth 2 Fire is burning in Millard County. It started Monday night in the Fishlake National Forest south of Kanosh and has grown fast to over 4,300 acres with zero percent […]
(Leamington, UT) — A fire in Millard County has been fully contained. The Wild Horse Fire broke out one week ago during a lightning strike. Eventually, it burned seven-thousand acres in the Fishlake National Forest near Leamington. A recent round of winter weather helped the firefighters.
(Beaver County, UT) — A new fire is burning in Fishlake National Forest. Utah Fire Info says the blaze was reported yesterday morning and was roughly ten acres in size at the time. Officials noted the flames are in “challenging, inaccessible terrain,” and it’s unclear what started the fire. Authorities […]
(Millard County, UT) — The Wide Mouth Fire has now exceeded 600 acres. A lightning strike sparked the blaze Saturday afternoon in Fishlake National Forest near Dog Valley Mountain, south of Kanosh. It grew six times its original size within the first 24 hours. It’s burning west of the Monroe […]
(Sevier and Piute Counties, UT) — The Monroe Canyon Fire has expanded to almost 72-thousand acres nearly a month after igniting, making it the largest wildfire in Utah this year. Authorities say the fire grew by five-thousand acres over the weekend and is 36 percent contained as of this morning. […]
On May 16, the remains of a human foot was found in a shoe on the shores of Fishlake. Sevier County Sheriff’s Office linked it to an individual who went missing in 1997, David White. According to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, “White was intending to go fishing […]
A search is scheduled after human remains were found at Fishlake. According to Sevier County Sheriff Nathan Curtis, “on the evening of the 16th of May we had a report from an individual who was walking his dog along the shoreline of Fishlake and his dog started picking up a […]
(Sevier, UT) — A wildfire burning an hour north of Cedar City is nearing full containment. Officials announced this past weekend management was being handed over to a local incident team because crews have reached 88 percent containment on the Silver King Fire. Firefighters will have to stay at the […]
