Fire crews made progress on a wildfire burning in Hobble Creek Canyon, east of Springville, over the weekend.

The Cherry Fire is mapped at 540 acres and is now 73% contained, according to a Monday evening social media post by the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, a division of the U.S. Forest Service.

On Friday, the Forest Service reported the fire had burned more than 650 acres. Then, after firefighters were able to walk the entire perimeter of the fire on Sunday, they determined the acreage was less than the original estimate.

The wildfire sparked Thursday evening , rapidly forcing evacuations of some homes and campsites in the area.

Since then, crews have been successful at reaching containment on the west and south portions of the fire, fire officials said. Cooler temperatur

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