WEBER COUNTY, Utah, Sept. 10, 2017 (Gephardt Daily) — The Uintah Fire is now 100 percent contained, and evacuees were allowed to return home as of 7 p.m. Thursday.
The fire was caused by a downed power line, Weber County officials stated Friday.
Weber Fire District said in a news release on Facebook the total suppression cost estimate is $849,000.
Fire crews are expected to keep working in the area for at least the next ten days.
The fire has burned 619 acres on private and state land since it broke out Tuesday morning.
The fire has been burning in oak brush, sagebrush, and grasses on the Uintah “U” mountainside, Uintah Highlands area east of Combe Road and Woodland Drive, and along U.S. 84, according to a news release from the Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.
Weber Fire District said that in total there are 18 destroyed or damaged structures; three homes have been destroyed and two homes damaged. Four other structures such as sheds and outbuildings were destroyed and nine damaged.
