{"id":718321,"date":"2026-06-22T01:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718321\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T01:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T01:24:12","slug":"no-homes-burned-but-evacuations-remain-in-place-as-eurekas-iron-fire-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/718321\/","title":{"rendered":"No homes burned, but evacuations remain in place as Eureka&#8217;s Iron Fire grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EUREKA, Juab County \u2014 The town of Eureka remained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/51514239\/juab-county-wildfire-grows-to-1000-acres-overnight\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">under evacuation<\/a> on Sunday as a nearby fire grew to nearly 22,000 acres by midday.<\/p>\n<p>The human-caused fire is burning on the border of Tooele, Utah and Juab counties and remains 0% contained at 21,935 acres, Utah fire managers said. The fire had been mapped at 13,323 acres Sunday morning just several hours earlier. No homes have been lost.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can all let out a cautious sigh of relief for now,&#8221; Santaquin Fire and EMS said on Facebook early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A successful backburn operation helped protect the town overnight, and no primary structures were lost,&#8221; Utah Fire Info, managed by state fire officials, posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crews will continue assessing conditions and conducting burn operations (Sunday) to strengthen and secure fire lines,&#8221; the agency added.<\/p>\n<p>A federal firefighting crew that handles complex fires will take command of the fire at 6 p.m. Sunday, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The power was also out in Eureka, and Utah Fire Info said it would be restored after safety issues are assessed.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not disclosed the fire&#8217;s specific cause other than to say it was caused by humans. It&#8217;s unclear how many homes are evacuated, but the latest census data from 2020 estimated between 662 and 828 people live there.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated. To be notified about updates, please click Follow This Story below on the KSL app.<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    The Key Takeaways for this article were generated with the assistance of large language models and reviewed by our editorial team. The article, itself, is solely human-written.\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUREKA, Juab County \u2014 The town of Eureka remained under evacuation on Sunday as a nearby fire grew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1302,3811,3071,192,3812,134,3729,7221,3,3813,3814,99,1505,2987,21,19,22,20,25,24,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-718321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-crime","tag-environment","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}