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ST. GEORGE — Firefighters responded to two brush fires on the St. George-Washington City border Thursday night that may have occurred under suspicious circumstances.
Around 10:30 p.m., the Washington City Fire Department was dispatched to a fire in a field behind the Home Depot off 3050 East. Soon after, at 10:45 p.m., another brush fire was reported in the vacant field behind Sportsman’s Warehouse, 2957 E. 850 North, just southwest of the original fire’s location.
“Both fires are suspicious,” St. George Fire Chief Robert Stoker said, the St. George Fire Department having responded to the second fire. “There’s no electrical or anything like that around these areas.”
Due to the close proximity of the fires in time and location, Stoker said, it looked like someone set the fires while passing through the area. It also wouldn’t be the first time someone had lit a fire there either, he said.
“We’ve had a history of that over the years with individuals, whether juveniles or adults,” he said. “(There’s) no suspect information this point, but both fires are suspicious.”
Both fires were extinguished rather quickly. In the case of the fire behind Sportsman’s Warehouse, the fire was put down through the use of fire engine-mounted water cannons that saturated the area.
