Unified Fire crews knock down field fire in Taylorsville

Unified Fire crews knocked down a field fire in Taylorsville that spread to a shipping container Wednesday afternoon. Photo courtesy: Unified Fire Authority

TAYLORSVILLE, Utah, Aug. 21, 2019 (Gephardt Daily) — Unified Fire crews knocked down a Taylorsville field fire that spread to a shipping container Wednesday afternoon.

A tweet from Unified Fire Authority at 3 p.m. said the field fire was “accidentally started by utility crews working on infrastructure, who quickly made efforts to extinguish it.”

The fire spread to a shipping container used for storage, the tweet said.

West Valley Fire Department and Unified Police Department helped to manage the incident, officials said.

No injuries were reported and there was a minimal loss of property.

 

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