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TOOELE, Utah (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management is planning to finish off a prescribed brush fire in a section of southern Tooele County.
Federal officials say the managed fire is set for Thursday, weather conditions permitting, near Rush Valley.
The West Desert Fire Zone officials say a drying trend that follows recent storms along the Wasatch Front should make for perfect conditions for a low- to moderate-intensity fire.
They'll burn about 27 acres of land in Big Hollow about a mile south of state Route 199.
That will complete a section that officials burned last spring, when about 70 acres were set afire.
The fires are clearing wood chips left on the ground from a fuel-reduction project two years ago.
It also is clearing brush to reduce the risk of an uncontrolled fire.
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