Coal waste piles still burning a year after central Utah fire

(Photo courtesy of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining) Last year's Trail Fire, which burned 18,000 acres in Utah's Manti-La Sal National Forest west of Huntington, ignited several coal waste piles near the openings of the historic Seagull and Helco mines.

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