File photo of a brush fire. | Photo by James Fitzgerald, Unsplash, St. George News
ST. GEORGE — A brush fire ignited Wednesday afternoon about 12 miles northwest of Fillmore Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Millard County Fire District, the Bald Mountain Fire has consumed around 100 acres.
The area was the site of a much larger fire, also called the Bald Mountain Fire, in August and September 2018 that later merged with another fire to consume 120,000 acres and spread smoke into northern Utah that postponed several outdoor sporting events.
Map showing location of Bald Mountain Fire. Click to enlarge. | Photo via Google Maps, St. George News
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Chris Reed serves as weekend editor and reporter for St. George News. He has steadily moved east after growing up among the Valley girls of Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. He graduated from Cal State Northridge before spending a decade in Las Vegas. As a sports reporter and editor, he once compared shoe sizes with Shaq. As a news reporter and editor, he has covered parades, triumphs and tragedies. He also once got close to the stars doing publicity for a space module builder. He came to St. George for love and has grown to love the community. He is the proud father of two boys, his youngest a champion against both autism and Type 1 diabetes.