LAYTON, Utah, July 7, 2026 (Gephardt Daily) — About 30 Layton homes were evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a grass fire sparked between the Weber State Davis campus and two adjacent mobile home parks to the east, both south of Antelope Drive.
Layton City Fire responded to the two-alarm fire, with assistance from crews from Kaysville and Hill Air Force Base.
Layton Battalion Chief Jason Cook estimated about 70 firefighters were on the scene, with six engines, a ladder truck, and five brush engines, along with some auxiliary units.
“We were probably here for a good hour and a half, getting it under control,” Cook said. “Maybe even as much as two hours. It was a pretty dang hostile fire for about the first 30 minutes, and it was growing rapidly. We had wind changes that were affecting it.”
The calls started coming in just before 4 p.m., he said.
“It generated a lot of attention, so we had a lot of 911 calls. So we had a good fire from the beginning.”
Multiple manufactured homes were threatened, and about 30 were evacuated, “out of an abundance of caution,” Cook said. Some families took shelter at nearby Northridge High School.
In the end, about four homes had moderate to medium damage and one is likely a total loss, he said. About eight trailers will be uninhabitable until damaged utility infrastructure can be repaired or replaced. The American Red Cross of Utah is helping find accommodations for those in need.
Later, after surveying the area with drones, Cook said the fire is estimated to have burned a little more than seven acres. The cause of the grass fire is under investigation, he said.
“We got some early reports that there were some juveniles in the area,” he said. “They are presently interviewing them and seeing what, if any, involvement that they have in this.”
Cook said that, historically, manufactured homes can be a fire risk because they are built of lighter materials. The age of some units can add to the risk due to increased dryness of the materials. Cook said those factors may have contributed to the unit that fully burned.
But damages to the other units were more moderate, he said. And no residents or firefighters were injured.
Gephardt Daily will have more information on the fire as it is confirmed.
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