September 10, 2024 |
Photo – Pennock Mountain – Bigfoot99 file photo
Carbon County and Forest Service firefighters worked together to put out a fire on Pennock Mountain.
Around 12:50 pm Sunday afternoon, the Saratoga Police Department received a call of a fire east of town, on Pennock Mountain.
U.S. Forest Service Public Affairs Officer Aaron Voos told Bigfoot99 that, as of Monday morning, the roughly one-acre fire was nearly extinguished.
Saratoga firefighters who responded to the initial call were back in town by 4:30 Sunday afternoon.
Voos said the cause of the fire is still under investigation.