Firefighters and residents in the Great Basin and Southwest are bracing for extreme wildfire conditions through the weekend.
The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City issued a rare “particularly dangerous situation” red flag warning in parts of Utah, Friday, for the first time in the office’s history, due to a volatile combination of high winds, temperatures and low humidities.
Critical fire weather conditions are expected to persist into Sunday, complicating efforts to contain the largest wildfire currently burning in the U.S., the Cottonwood Fire, which is burning in a sparsely populated part of southern Utah…