Unified Fire Authority begins to burn piles and piles of tumbleweeds
Mar 11, 2024, 3:34 PM | Updated: Jun 28, 2024, 4:04 pm

Unified Fire Authority burns tumbleweeds (Unified Fire Authority)
(Unified Fire Authority)
EAGLE MOUNTAIN — What’s worse than apocalyptic levels of tumbleweeds? Cleaning up apocalyptic levels of tumbleweeds.
After Eagle Mountain was buried by thousands of tumbleweeds in a big wind storm, the Unified Fire Authority began to burn the remnants on Monday.
Eagle Mountain residents are still digging themselves out of tumbleweeds
Capt. Tony Barker with the Unified Fire Authority said they only burned approximately 25% of the tumbleweeds and had to stop because the weather impeded their efforts.
Otherwise, Barker said the burning was expected to last all day because of the sheer amount of tumbleweeds to take care of.
Unified Fire Authority is conducting controlled burns in Eagle Mountain today. This is to assist in the mitigation of those troubling tumbleweeds. pic.twitter.com/X211yvrN0F
— Unified Fire (@FireAuthority) March 11, 2024