Salt Lake City wildfire prompts mandatory evacuations uphill from Utah’s state capitol

A wildfire in Salt Lake City has forced people living uphill from Utah’s state capitol to evacuate. The blaze on Ensign Peak remains uncontained, with more than 100 firefighters working to protect nearby homes on Sunday. Airplanes have responded and helicopters are dumping buckets of water scooped up from a nearby creek. Fire Chief Bob Silverthorne said the first crew was dispatched around 4:30 p.m. Saturday and the hot dry weather and unpredictable wind made “kind of a recipe” for “a quickly running fire.” By Sunday morning, the Utah Fire Info website listed the blaze as human-caused, 200 acres and zero-percent contained.