New facility to aid crews battle wildfires across Wasatch Front - ksl.com
DRAPER — A brand new facility in the Salt Lake Valley will help with the coordination of fighting wildfires in Northern Utah.
The Northern Utah Interagency Fire Center is a partnership between the State of Utah, the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. The state donated the property, which is located near the prison, while the BLM paid for the actual building and the Forest Service contributed to the equipment inside. The effort is a joint one that continues out on the fire lines.
Each agency says the new facility was sorely needed. The previous location was cramped and the new building allows for better communication, putting key players all in the same room.
And it has been finished just in time, as Utah wild land firefighters gear up for what could be the worst season in at least five years.
The facility is really the nerve center where the battle begins against all wildfires along the Wasatch Front, and north to Idaho. A report of a wild fire on public land will come to the center, and then officials will dispatch fire trucks, crews, helicopters and air support as needed, and they can monitor all the fires in the facility.
Radio dispatch is located in a room with three giant screens, allowing anyone in the fire center to see exactly where the fires are and where the available resources are stationed.
White Rocks Fire contained, other fires burn across the state - ksl.com
Meanwhile, the 2,018-acre Box Creek Fire near Greenwich was 40 percent contained. Some residents have been evacuated, but no property has been damaged thus far. Fire officials were hopeful that the homes would be spared.
"The weather today is firefighter heaven. Somebody above is taking care of us today," public affairs officer Richard Helmerick told The Associated Press on Sunday. "Yesterday we had terrible wind conditions. But we're expecting two to three days of good weather. We're optimistic."
In Box Elder County, the Copper Mountain Fire has burned about 1,200 on the east side of the Pilot Mountains near U.S. 30 on the Utah/Nevada border, according to the Bureau of Land Management.
As of 7 a.m. Sunday, the fire was 40 percent contained. The fire had been burning since Saturday. The cause remains under investigation.
The Box Creek Fire began in mid-May as a prescribed burn in Fishlake National Forest by the U.S. Forest Service, but high winds caused it to grow last week. The Lost Lake Fire is believed to have been human-caused.
Contributing: The Associated Press
Sweet Bay Area weather - so richly and notably dull - compared to Midwest stormnation - San Jose Mercury News
When terrifying storms are threatening to rip apart Iowa, it's really challenging to not sound smug about Bay Area weather when it's so richly and notably dull.
"It's way more exciting elsewhere than here," said Diana Henderson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Monterey. "You should move the newspaper to Nebraska, Iowa or even Minnesota."
They were hunkering down in the Midwest as a huge, swath of thunderstorms developed over the region Sunday. Meanwhile, the inland region in these parts settled oh-so perfectly into its normal, predictable, Mediterranean summer pattern: A mild Sunday morning turned into a warm, sunny Sunday afternoon with highs into the 90s. The sweet weather was punctuated by dry, breezy winds in the afternoon that died down after sundown, just like they'll do most days from now through September.
Henderson said warm, offshore winds will continue to bring a very dry mass of air into the Bay Area on Monday, bringing high temperatures into the lower 90s in the South Bay, mid-90s in the East Bay and the upper 80s in the Peninsula.
A layer of cool air and fog might move in from the Pacific to cool things down Monday night, Henderson said. But if it doesn't, expect Tuesday to begin mild and become just as warm. Temperatures will cool a bit Wednesday and then rise again next weekend for Fathers Day.
Contact Joe Rodriguez at 408-920-5767.
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