Wildfire Rages West of St. George, Spreading Fast

A wildfire burning out of control in the Beaver Dam Mountains west of here more than tripled in size on Monday, destroying electrical poles and a radio repeater station for law enforcement, and forcing the closure of a 24-mile-long highway that runs south out of the Paiute Indian Reservation at Shivwits.
July 2, 2003
A wildfire burning out of control in the Beaver Dam Mountains west of here more than tripled in size on Monday, destroying electrical poles and a radio repeater station for law enforcement, and forcing the closure of a 24-mile-long highway that runs south out of the Paiute Indian Reservation at Shivwits.
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