Traverse Fire News Today

After surveying the hillside on Traverse Mountain directly above a row of homes, Lehis fire chief is worried.

KSL TV LEHI — Two Utah fire chiefs urged residents to use the same level of caution and compliance with fireworks for the upcoming Pioneer Day holiday as they did over the Fourth of July. "Continue to do what you did over the Fourth," said Fire Chief Clint Smith with the Draper City Fire Department. "We cant let our guard down by any means. The threat still exists. The threat is still significant and very real." In areas where fireworks are permitted, Utah law allows them to be discharged sta...

New signs were posted at neighborhood entrances along Traverse Mountain in Utah County as a reminder that fireworks are off limits in the area.

Utah in 2020: With COVID, an earthquake, winds and fires, it was a year many may like to forget — but never will Protests against racism and police violence also brought reforms, while voters did what the Senate didn’t: Dump Trump. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) It has been a tumultuous 2020 with a magnitude 5.7 earthquake shaking the Salt Lake Valley, hurricane-force winds toppling thousands of trees, raging wildfires forcing record evacuations, protests against racis...