FARMINGTON, Utah –The Farmington Spine Fire was 100 percent contained as of Sunday night.Fire officials mapped the Farmington Spine Fire Sunday and found it covered about 58 acres. The fire was originally estimated to be 75 acres.Fire officials said just after 8 p.m. Sunday the blaze was 100 percent contained and the Farmington Canyon Area would open again Monday.Firefighters used air resources to drop retardants on the blaze throughout the day.Officials believe the fire to be human caused, but they have not yet confirmed the specifics of how the fire started.
My granddaughter and I were geo-caching one day and she said to me that it would be fun to place a cache where there had been a fire and call it Stop, Drop and Roll. A few days latter the farmington fire was seen on the mountainside and I called her to tell her she was in trouble because she was responsible for the fire, because she had asked for one. She just laughed.
The principle of Stop, Drop and Roll is taught in the school to help the children understand how to save themselves if they ever catch on fire. There a number of cards with this instruction in the cache, feel free to take one as long as they last. The cache is within the fire area and is 300 feet east of the fire break road. The container is a cylindrical steel tube and has plenty of room for TB's etc.