Sunday’s thunderstorm has kept firefighters busy as crews battle more than a dozen fires sparked by lightning.
Tooele County Fire Warden Tom Wilson said as of Monday morning, four fires had been started off of the Mormon Trail Road south of the Grantsville Reservoir, at least 10 across the Onaqui and Simpson Mountain Ranges, and two on Indian Peak.
The latter fires, also the largest, were burning approximately 60 to 100 acres at the latest acreage count available at press time. Wilson said one of the fires was accessible from the road, while the other would require hand crews and smoke jumpers to fight the flames.
Besides the fires tallied up Monday morning, Wilson said he suspected the number would grow as small, smoldering areas grew.
“I suspect we’ll have a few more fires crop up today that we didn’t see yesterday,” he said. “Likely they’ll be on the Onaqui.”
Wilson said another fire by Anaconda, which was possibly human caused, was contained but still smoking.