It was only a matter of time before all that green vegetation in Utah's mountains and valleys started turning yellow and brown.
"This heat really does dry them out a lot quicker," said Karl Hunt, spokesman for the Utah's Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. "Things are really starting to ramp up as we've really gotten a lot of that summer heat coming in in the last couple of weeks."
"Things are definitely starting to dry out. We've seen that especially out on the desert," said Kylee Stott, a fire mitigation technician assigned to the Bettridge fire.shows they are scattered across the state with fire crews battling them. "A lot of these fires can be prevented, and that's why we try to enforce these little behavior modifications. We want to remind people that fire sense is common sense," Hunt said.
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