Salt Lake City firefighters contained a grass fire on the city’s west side that burned between 4 and 5 acres Wednesday.
The fire, at about 1900 West and Indiana (approximately 900 South), was reported shortly after noon by employees at Salt Lake City’s vehicle fleet, headquartered near there, a Salt Lake City Fire Department spokeswoman said. Fire crews had the blaze was mostly contained within half an hour.
No one was injured, and no structures were damaged. Smoke from the fire is rising in a plume visible miles away.
“It looked a lot worse than it was,” the spokeswoman said.
Investigators said they believed the fire was started unintentionally at a transient camp near Interstate 215, the spokeswoman said.
