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Show MAY 16, 2001 WASATCH COUNTY COURIER FIRE CONTINUED FROM A1 At the same time, once fire prone areas are getting some help. The Timber Lakes subdivision is often listed as one of the most likely places in the state to see a wildfire. Rutter says the combination of a lot of people and expensive homes in dense vegetation make the subdivision a high risk. But this year, the Department of Forests, Fire and State Lands was awarded a grant Westar Coad Move Entirely To Nevada resources,” says Pollock. At the very least the extra ‘money should cut fuel loads and response times to fires. Last year, the nearest federal fire engine was in Pleasant Grove. This year, the Heber and WENDOVER, Utah (AP) — Reps. Jim Hansen, R-Utah, and Jim Gibbons, RNev., propose moving the state line a _ few miles to the east so all of Wendover - Kamas districts will each have one. The last major wild fire in Wasatch County was the Midway Fire in 1990, which burned 18 structures and killed 2 firefighters. Rutter credits the county’s firefighters for the lack of major fires in the county since. can be in Nevada. Hansen way But education is also the key to avoiding fire in the first place, he Utah’s Wendover — with its 1,500 res- operating a handful of weather-beaten. businesses — plays poor cousin to glittering West Wendover, Nev., energized by gambling revenues, and its surging population of 5,000. | West Wendover Mayor Reese Melville, who grew up on the Utah side, longs for the day when the town is unified under the single name ‘‘Wendover.” their local law enforcement dispatch stepped up and allocated close to $2 billion for a National Fire Plan, including $200 million for fire prevention and forest restoration. _ office before they start burning and after the fire is out. After June 1, permits are required. | Rutter says he is happy to talk to individual property owners or to On the local level, that means more firefighters, more equipment homeowner and a more active approach to reduc- reached at 503-0218. - “Yd rather prevent a fire then ae one out,” he says. ing the fuel loads in forests, associations about reducing the risk of fire. He can be says Kathy Jo Pollock, spokesperson for the Wasatch-Cache National Forest. “Last year we were just so short of i eho eeepistlesSe i << ee te ns ame Wardley Ce ‘@eRealEstate GMAc 76 East Center Street Heber City, UT 84032 ‘This Home Features Many Spactacilar Townhome. Next fo Awesome Views, Privacy! 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Unification ‘would airport,” said Commissioner Teryl be a great deal.” Hunsaker, ‘and, because the state has However, Melville said: his town nailed us to the wall (by fighting) our would not be able to absorb much of the _hazardous-waste storage industry, debt incurred on the Utah side for somebody has got to maintain the abilischools, water and the airport. ‘These ty to give this county a tax base.” issues would have to be taken care of, In the late 1980s, Utah lawmakers but I am sure they can be resolved.” rebuffed a plan by Wendover residents He pegs that debt at less than 510 to open the Utah side to gambling. million. - Lawmakers vowed there never would be Wendover, Utah, City eater legal gambling on Utah soil. 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The seven fires so far this will pay part of the cost of year could’ve been going in and cleaning out avoided, he says. “Last year we the fuel load in Timber “They were all preLakes and_ hopefully were just so short ventable fires. 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