Comment on Brian Head Fire: With flames nearly hemmed in, crews turn to forest rehab work

Aided by thunderstorms and showers, crews on Wednesday were tightening their stranglehold on southern Utah’s nearly month-old Brian Head Fire. The blaze, sparked June 17 by a weed-burning project gone wrong, was at 71,673 acres and 85 percent containment as of dawn Wednesday. About 560 firefighters — roughly a third of the number that fought the fire at its height — worked toward a goal of 100 percent containment by early Saturday afternoon. “They did a really good job overnight on the north end... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>