With most of Cedar City’s firefighters tied up fighting a blaze along Interstate 15, crews from multiple surrounding fire agencies worked to extinguish and contain a separate brush fire that burned approximately 10 acres east of Iron Springs Road Thursday afternoon. Ryan Riddle, Iron County fire warden for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, told Cedar City News the Iron Springs-area fire was first reported about 4:30 p.m.
Initially, six structures across the road from the fire were threatened, along with some nearby power lines and other infrastructure.
“There were people evacuated from the homes initially, but they’ve been able to go back into those homes,” Riddle said, adding that no structures were damaged. Later Thursday evening, crews were still on scene working on a containment perimeter.