The Forest Service's decision to not put out the 2018 Pole Creek fire led to one of Utah's worst wildfires. Now property owners want the government to pay for the damage.
An air tanker air drops fire retardant on the Pole Creek fire in September 2018. The Forest Service's decision to not immediately put out the Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires is now the subject of a lawsuit filed by property owners seeking damages from the federal government.For the past several years, the U.S.
That question is now before a Utah federal judge hearing a lawsuit targeting decisions by the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest to not immediately suppress two late-season wildfires in 2018, as well as the policy directives that led to those decisions.blew up with the arrival of high winds on Sept. 13, 2018, and burned 100,000 acres, including private land, south of Spanish Fork Canyon.
The UWC, which sees an average of 91 wildfires a year, features vast stretches of “wildland-urban interface” thanks to its proximity to Utah’s population centers along the Wasatch Front. But the two fires were remote enough that forest managers felt comfortable monitoring them, as opposed to immediately putting them out.
The water association brought the suit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows for damage awards from the government under certain circumstances. Those circumstances are met in this case because the Forest Service failed to go through the appropriate processes when it adopted a policy of employing natural wildfire as a forest management tool, the suit alleges.
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