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Where you can and can t launch fireworks in Utah this year
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Where you can and can t launch fireworks in Utah this year
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Governor, firefighters and city leaders beg Utahns not to use personal fireworks this year
Governor, firefighters and city leaders beg Utahns not to use personal fireworks this year
and last updated 2021-06-30 19:13:34-04
SALT LAKE CITY â Flanked by dozens of firefighters, city leaders and some state lawmakers, Governor Spencer Cox pleaded with Utahns to not use personal fireworks this year in the face of potentially catastrophic wildfires. If I could issue a ban on personal fireworks, I would, the governor said at a news conference Wednesday. But state law does not allow me to do that. So Iâm asking you, Iâm imploring each of you to do the right thing: And the right thing this year is to put your personal fireworks away.
Fire chiefs call on everyone to skip personal fireworks this year — or be held personally responsible for fire costs
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The Neffs Fire burned near Millcreek City. It almost forced evacuations in the Olympus Cove area.
Most of Salt Lake County, and Utah for that matter, is in extreme or exceptional drought. Even though the state’s official fire season doesn’t start until June, fire authorities in the county are already gearing up for the 2021 wildfire season.
Besides dry conditions, canyons around the Salt Lake Valley are a wildfire danger because forests butt up against urban areas, according to Unified Fire Authority Chief Dan Petersen.
“There s a risk living in this area,” Petersen told the Salt Lake County Council Tuesday. “There s really a risk everywhere we are right? Everywhere we live. The canyons offer that concern.”