The Federal Emergency Management Agency has authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Rocky Canyon Fire burning east of Salt Lake City in Morgan and Summit counties.
The authorization makes FEMA funding available to pay 75% of the state’s eligible firefighting costs under an approved grant for managing, mitigating and controlling designated fires. These grants do not assist individual home or business owners and do not cover other infrastructure damage caused by the fire.
FEMA Region 8 approved the state’s request for a federal Fire Management Assistance Grant after receiving the request Sunday evening and determining that the fire threatened such destruction that it would constitute a major disaster…