HURRICANE — Heavy smoke blurred visibility for motorists Saturday afternoon as a tan plume from an agricultural burn rose into the bright January sky above Hurricane.
At about 1:50 p.m., Hurricane Police officers and the Hurricane Fire Department responded to the area of 1500 S. 700 West in Hurricane on reports of a large amount of smoke rising from a field, but the fire turned out to be an agricultural burn, Hurricane Police spokesman Sgt. Brandon Buell said.
The property where the fire blazed is approximately 10 acres, and the element being burned was grass, Buell said. A gusty wind and large amounts of smoke created a visibility issue for about 20 minutes. Police officers turned their patrol vehicle lights on to caution drivers to slow down, Buell said.
The property owner was present and stated the fire was well under control, Scott Adams, a spectator at the scene, said.
“The issue was smoke coming off the damp fields,” Adams said. “It created some interesting vortex plumes and temporarily obscured the roadway on 700 West.”
As of about 2:45 p.m., the Hurricane Fire Department was still on scene to monitor the smoke and make sure the fire completely sizzles out.
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Dang tweekers
Wow, great air quality around here!
… and everyone in St George was oohing and aahing over the clouds and snapping pictures and commenting about the cloud formations.
Yeah they were looking for the ELVIS cloud
I just do not understad if you hate St George and the LDS church and mormans in general why you would want to live here? Is it because mommy and daddy says you have to?
I just don’t understand if you hate Koolaid so bad why do you use his name.? is it because mommy and daddy say you have to you left yourself open for that one
There it is. POW! If you don’t like it, then move. Love it when they play that card!
Tight.. Yeah they do play that card don’t they….
If these people don’t like me so much, why don’t they move? The place might be a lot better if they leave.
Yeah!!!! RIGHT ON KOOLAID
Whatever you say MO
I saw the smoke and I said “oh look, there’s a fire” the clouds formations are more contraversial
The cloud formations were interesting. I spotted an owl drinking a beer and a large pepperoni pizza with xtra cheese and a 1956 Chevy and Lincoln eating a Donut
you really got schooled a few weeks ago after your comments about the last cloud picture. Hahahaha.
What? Oh yes, I learned how to spell Mormon.
Oh, it was more than just that. Your posts have been much less like the gunty cash you are since then. I am sure it won’t last.
What???? “less like the gunty cash you are” ya, I’m not from here, is that a Utah saying?
Oh I stand on everything I said, are you one of the brainwashed? Were you affected by the cloud?
YUP, why are you hating on me and calling me names?
Wow! What a class act with that comment! Is that how you usually talk to women? Are you from Dixie?
I allowed a bad day to cause me to lash out here. Sorry. As a human I should be better than making negative comments about another person or their point of view. New year resolution: no reading comments or posting.
Real nice post there idiot by all means show off your intellectual level. LOL.! Like you even have one
We were told fires were outlawed in Washington County until the first of March–what’s with the double standard?
I believe it is who you are and who you know. Just like a lot of other things around here.
And in a lot of other places…the difference is that in other places there’s no goody two-shoes attitude about such things…”us? we don’t play favorites…we’re saints…”
I have to believe you are right.
Wow you actually have mellowed out since you’ve been sniffing bicycle seats its really working for you
Dang … watch your fire better. You wasted alot of peoples time.
Ed. ellipsis.
Those Dang Tweekers!!