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While several fires broke out across the state as people celebrated the Labor Day holiday, few posed much of a threat, fire officials said.

Firefighters worked to contain a two-acre wildfire discovered Monday — dubbed Mahogany Fire — in Cedar Hills, near American Fork Canyon, according to Uinta Wasatch-Cache National Forest Service spokesman Willie Begay.

"Fire personnel there are confident they will contain it by the end of today," he said Monday evening. He estimated about 50 firefighters were on the scene from federal and local agencies. He noted some firefighters were fighting from above in heavy air tankers and a single-engine air tanker.

Initially, fire crews thought it would be necessary to evacuate the area on top of the burning hill by Mahogany Mountain, Begay said, but that order was later rescinded.

Investigators are still trying to determine the fire's exact cause, Begay said.

There was no standing timber along the slope, Begay said, and the fire was consuming grass and brush. No structures were threatened Monday night, Begay said, as the fire was burning away from a subdivision, going upslope.

Additionally, the West Government Creek Fire in Tooele County had grown to 4,244 acres by Monday, Begay said.

That blaze — burning in grass, sagebrush and juniper vegetation — was sparked by lightning Friday about 10 miles southwest of Vernon. The fire remained 5 percent contained Monday, Begay said.

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