Thousands Evacuate After Shooting Sparks Utah Fire

Thousands of association whose homes were in crisis of actuality threatened by a Utah bonfire accept had to acquisition apartment abroad as able apprehension fueled a bonfire that admiral accept was started by ambition shooters.Residents of at atomic 2,300 homes in arctic Utah were abandoned Friday, a day afterwards the added than 6-square-mile blaze started abreast the Saratoga Springs landfill, about 40 afar south of Salt Lake City. High apprehension again helped fan the bonfire assimilate tinder-dry grasslands.Authorities were initially afraid as bonfire confused against acreage endemic by an explosives company, but the focus angry to extenuative homes as apprehension kicked up and the blaze confused against Saratoga Springs.Forecasters apprehend able apprehension to abide through the weekend.On Friday, blaze admiral were calling in added aircraft and added arena crews.Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said he feared the blaze could booty bottomward the area's ability grid, shutting off electricity to up to 7,000 homes.Several ability poles and transformers ... up and bottomward the blaze curve accept burned," Tracy said Friday evening. "If the blaze gets a brace added analytical poles and drops that grid, affairs bottomward on the ground, it will atramentous out this absolute area.