Utah’s raging wildfires have burned enough land in the backcountry to match the size of Salt Lake County this year. And along northern Utah’s urban corridor, a number of recent structure fires have also proved destructive, torching homes, displacing hundreds of people and forcing still more to evacuate.
“Collectively, it’s been a very, very busy season,” Sandy Fire Chief Ryan McConaghie said Tuesday.
The spate of house and apartment fires taking place from Cache County’s small city of Nibley to more densely populated West Jordan has kept firefighters hard at work as their departments focus on keeping them safe in this summer’s punishing heat…