RICHFIELD, UTAH—The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands and their federal interagency partners opened a new wildland fire cache on Thursday in Richfield. The cache will logistically support the interagency wildland firefighting efforts across central Utah.
“What we have built here is an interagency fire cache to meet the needs of the state of Utah and the counties in the area, as well as the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. All these agencies are now partners in this cache and the services it will provide to central Utah,” said Fred Johnson, Central Area Fire Management Officer (FMO) for the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands.
The new fire cache was built with help from the state legislature, which worked to secure $3 million in funding for the new building. The cache will be the central location for wildland firefighting equipment that will be available to firefighters from local, state, and federal agencies assigned to a fire in the central part of the state.
Today’s ribbon cutting marked the official opening of the new building. In true firefighting fashion, a group of area firefighters burned the ribbon.
The new building will also provide storage space for other DNR agencies, supporting their missions and objectives in central Utah.
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