Update: Crews contain human-caused fire on national forest land above Wildernest

Summit County Sheriff’s Office/Courtesy photo
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with additional information from the U.S. Forest Service. The spelling difference of the Lillie Pad Fire and Lilly Pad Trail is accurate, according to the Forest Service.
The Summit County Sheriff’s Office responded alongside Summit Fire & EMS and U.S. Forest Service crews Friday night, Sept. 19, to an active fire on national forest land near Wildernest in Summit County. The fire occurred south of Lilly Pad Trail, a road on the west side of Wildernest, White River National Forest public affairs officer David Boyd said in an email.
No evacuations were considered, and crews contained the Lillie Pad Fire around 8:40 p.m. Friday night, according to a Summit County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post. Incident command was transferred to the U.S. Forest Service.
Boyd wrote that a Forest Service engine crew remained on-scene as of noon Saturday to monitor the contained fire. The fire took around 90 minutes to contain Friday night, Boyd wrote, and at its pinnacle reached around one-hundredth of an acre.
Boyd wrote that the fire was human-caused, and the Forest Service is working with local law enforcement on the investigation.

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