KAMAS — A fire that prompted the evacuation of campers in the High Uintas wilderness on Thursday continues to grow, while crews battling the state’s largest fire say they’re bracing for potential impacts tied to shifting winds in Utah’s forecast.

The Beulah Fire has now burned approximately 1,400 acres of land within Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, as of midday Friday, said U.S. Forest Service spokesman Toby Weed. It wasn’t immediately clear if firefighters had gained any containment of the fire, which broke out about 3 to 4 miles east of Manorlands, a community near Mirror Lake Highway.

A Type 3 firefighting team from the state has taken over command of the fire after crews from Summit County and Uinta County, Wyoming, initially responded. State firefighters reported that structur

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