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Show Sunday, August DAILY HERALD 12 H 2007 Yellowstone Fire gets more rain Saturday; Resort reopens Bob Moen THt ASSOCIATED . the park's entrance until the We're pretty confident slide could be cleared. The ar where the landslide occurred we have the best was outside the fire, she said. PRESS CHEYENNE, Wy a- -A resort featuring century old hunting lodge built by Buffalo Bill Cody just outside Yellow- stone National Park in northwest Wyoming reopened as a second day of rain dampened ' a wildfire smoldering nearby Saturday. Jack McDonald, weekend manager at the Pahaska Tepee Resort, said the lodge reopened Friday night and had a few guests on Saturday. Quests and staff at the resort fled last week in advance of the Columbine fire that started in Yellowstone and headed for the resort and other cabins in the Pahaska Tepee area outside of the park's east gate. BiX of an inch of rain fell on the fire Friday and about another half inch ; fell by nudaftemoon Saturday, stalling its march and giving -- . three-quarte- And while the rain was timely and welcome, the fire could roar back to life once the fuels Jill Cobb dry out again, Cobb said. fire information officer The fire has burned an es't timated 19,000 acres, or close .. to 30 square miles, in the park firefighters a reprieve. The - ' and in the neighboring National Forest, park on Friday had reopened McDonald said he was its east gate, which had been closed for several days. aware of the possibility that However, the rain caused v: the fire could become a prob- its own problems when a mud lem for the resort again. slide 40 feet wide by 5 feet "Were just waiting to here more news, he said. Basically deep closed the highway leadit just goes by the day now." ing to the parks east gate More rain on the fire is a Various fire protection measures and equipment remained good thing, a closed road is not, Yellowstone spokesman. in (dace at the resort and other A1 Nash said in a telephone buildings in the area in case the interview. fire flares up again. ' Jill Cobb, fire information Were pretty confident we was have the best protection in officer, said UJS. closed about 7 miles east of 'place, Cobb said. protection in place. -- ' . Sho-shon- e . . . rs . st . PRESS . LAYTON Utah hasone bridge similar to the Minnesota span that collapsed into the River, in a remote area of Bax Elder County with veiy little traffic, state officials said. The disclosure came as of- ficials again insisted the state's 200 bridges are hi good shape. Six percent are rated poor but tint doesn't mean theyre risky. "Theyre safe bridges," said Carlos Braceras, deputy director of the Utah Department of : . ; ' Food. Utah State University has set up a Web site, www.Utah- - J exchange.org, for producers - ; wanting to sell or buy hay. Theres also a link for anyone wishing to donate feed. Salt Lake mortgage broker Lawrence Whet man, who owns 640 acres near Monti- - - ' cello in southeastern Utah, is ; r offering ranchers a place to cattle. their water and graze "The land is available right -now and ready to go, he, . said. Primary Childrens Medical Center in Salt Lake City, said Sgt. Ted Tingey of the Utah Highway PatroL The pickup truck was pulling an empty flatbed trailer while traveling west on when the right front tire Mew out, Tingey said. "The vehicle loses control, goes through the median and , into the path olf the semi, he said.. The crash occurred about 230 p.m. in Box Elder County County. A Dodge BLUE CREEK pickup Mew a tire on Interstate 84, crossed the median and smashed into a semitruck Saturday, killing a couple and their daughter, authorities said. . Their daughter was in critical condition at Minimee said. Of those, 32 are being reconstructed, 38 are funded and in design, and 41 stiD need Man accused of fatal crash was text messaging . program- -development . 111 bridges deemed Utah! "structurally deficient, Mc- most-travele- . THE ASSOCIATED PRESS by the end of October," said Jim McMinimee, UDOT director. The Utah bridge similar to the Minnesota bridge gets only 20 vehicles a day in Bax Elder. Transportation. "Theyre classified as having elements that are Structurally deficient, but they are safe." The deficiencies are usually small, such as potholes, he said. The Utah Transportation Commission got an update at a meeting Friday in Layton.. ; Earlier this month, after a Minneapolis bridge collapsed, killing at least 11 people. Gay. Jon Huntsman ordered inspections of Utah's 200 bridges. Another 100 have been added to the list:' "We'D have all 300 inspected . pi sponse to agriculture doesn't have the same immediacy . of, say, when people have lost their homes in a natural disaster, said Larry Lewis, spokesman at the Utah of Agriculture and . State says Utah bridges are safe ' THE ASSOCIATED hopes recent rain wiD give SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah , him a few more weeks to ' wildfires burned more than graze his cattle on public to have heU and trees brush. land, although land, Nearly 300 cattle and calves bring home the herd long before the traditional October were killed, 90 were injured deadline. ' and about 1,300 are missing, "I'D have to get a loan and federal a to survey according of ranchos. start buying hay, Bradshaw said. FTom the northeastern corner to the southwest, Utah Indeed, the federal survey had a series of significant ; found ranchers need tons of wildfires in June and July. hay to feed nearly 9, 700 disFive people died, including a placed animals. The U.S. Agriculture De-- . California couple riding a mosmoke when part men! still is deciding swept torcycle whether to declare a Interstate 15 on July 7. 560 than At in Utah, which would qualify more square .; miles, the Milford Flat Fire in ranchers and farmers for .. loans. Gov. Jon Beaver and Millard counties Huntsmans letter seeking ... was the largest in Utah hishelp was dated July 27. tory. Clark Bradshaw of Beaver "Typically, government re . . . lost 38 head in that fire. He THE ASSOCIATED PRESS near the Idaho border. The victims were Utah reudents but names were not released. The man was 28 years old and his wife was said. . money-'.- ' . , . .. " . , Tl ...... crossed the centerline last incredible," widow Leila O'Dell1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ... ' said .' Sept. 22, according to court LOGAN documents. Text messagDuring interviews with The SUV clipped a Saturn investigators, Shaw "was con- -' ; ing on a ceD phone may have into which that then in role crash crashed a a LS2, tinuously receiving and send-- 1 played : Killed two people in Cache a Ford truck. James Jng text messages, according Furfaro and Keith CDeQ were to documents filed in Logans .V County, authorities said. 1st District Court. killed in the Saturn. Reggie Shaw, 20, was mesShaw could not be reached saging as he drove to Logan , - Shaw has been for comment Saturday. There from Tremonton, and his last with negligent no phone number listed in " It's just p bitter waste, communication was sent just hisname. before his sport utility vehicle ' These two men were just so "Tint 41 represents $300 lion worth of needs." McMini- mil- ' . ' mee F-2- ' THE ASSOCIATED . 'authorities said.'-Placer County sheriffs deputies Said the ltacre blaze began near the resort community of Sunny-sid- e just south of Tahoe City. No injuries were reported. U.S. Forest Service spokes : PRESS - TAHOE CITY, CsDf. A house fire sparked a blaze Sat- wind-whippe- d, urday on like Tahoes west shore, destroying five houses' and forcing evacuations of some homes and businesses, ,1 sA Nr fw A letw tor lw 4eme A w4it Fwr End of Summer . woman Barbara Rebiskie said five homes and one outbuilding ; had been destroyed. The fire appeared to be slowing Saturday evening, and most of those evacuated were their homes, Rebi-.-. returning to skjesajd.,- -. On 5360 & fnmm SkS Cbraict ham. yMb SiffiM hat Pfefc 2Sfni550l,honumb'efddrJeOE3d'lp www.heraldextra.com . UtCh BLOWOUT SALE 20te60OFF . - KJ ; Hpt.vniir free bid today! Save ! ; .T Save $ JO per foot . j tfia So H to vUt mu wefaMt. on tnditioail cuibinf oa color lumped and Icxturcd I Mm yw MM or I J0 fat. 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