Summit County details accidental fire evacuation alert

Summit County staff say the evacuation alert that lit up cell phones from Evanston, Wyoming, to Salt Lake City to Wasatch County Aug. 9 was meant for only 107 people.

In the back end of the software that Summit County used to send it, staff say everything looked normal.

County spokesperson Derek Siddoway also said they had drafted a specific message with information about the Rocky Canyon Fire near Henefer. What residents received didn’t have any of that — it only said evacuate…

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