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Public Information Phone: (435) 310-5450 Email: 2024.silverking@firenet.gov

Agency: Fishlake National Forest – Beaver Ranger District

Location: Approximately three miles west of Marysvale, Utah

Start Date: July 05, 2024

Cause: Lightning

Acres: 18,222

Containment/Completion: 89%

Personnel: 141

On Saturday, August 3, 2024, at 7:00 a.m., the Silver King Fire will be transferred from Nevada Incident Management Team 5 to a local Type 4 Incident Manager. The fire has continually reduced assigned resources and lowered the incident complexity, allowing for a more cost-effective structure to take command and see the fire through to full containment.

With Nevada Team 5’s departure, the resources available to provide information to the public will change slightly. As of tomorrow, August 2, 2024, the fire information locations will be reduced to just two locations, the Marysvale Sinclair gas station and the Richfield Forest Service District Office. The fire information phone line will also transfer to the main Forest Service District Office line at (435) 896-9233.

While the fire is reducing in complexity and the incident management objectives are being met, the fire will remain in a patrol and monitor status for quite some time. Because the fire is confined and not declared “out” there will still be a considerable amount of smoke throughout the summer until cooler, winter weather arrives. However, the threat of the fire escaping its current footprint has been reduced to the lowest level possible with the contain/confine strategy.

Because the fire area will still be active, please, for your own safety, observe all forest closure notices and watch out for fire personnel and apparatuses around the fire area throughout the rest of the summer. The most current closure map can be found at https://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/fishlake/alerts-notices.