A motorhome fire at the entrance to Settlement Canyon late Wednesday night destroyed the vehicle and damaged a toll booth.
According to Ryan Willden, public information officer for the North Tooele County Fire District, a man was driving his RV into the canyon to park it at a campsite around 11 p.m. The man’s daughter followed behind in a car to give him a ride home after the motor home was parked.
When the man stopped to lift the entrance gate, his daughter noticed smoke and flames coming from the engine compartment.
The man grabbed the extinguisher inside the motorhome but the fire had already grown too large, Willden said. Flames spread to the interior of the motorhome, which was more than 20 years old, and the blaze quickly grew, he said.
The Tooele City Fire Department was the first agency on scene and brought three fire engines and two brush trucks, Willden said. NTCFD also brought three engines and a brush truck to keep the blaze from spreading.
It took about 20 to 25 minutes to put the fire out, Willden said. The motorhome was a total loss and had to be towed from the canyon entrance.
The toll booth near the gate received exterior damage from the flames. Rocky Mountain Power was called out to inspect high tension power lines that were over the fire.