MARYSVILLE, Utah — What was once the largest priority fire burning in the country a few weeks ago is now 90 percent contained. But while the rain is helping crews douse the Monroe Canyon Fire in central Utah , it is now causing new concerns.

"That soil has been burnt over, and in many cases can become hydrophobic and not receptive to water, almost like an impervious surface at that point," explained Blake Johnson with the Utah Bureau of Land Management.

It all adds up to making flash flooding, debris flows and runoff more prevalent in the burn scars left behind.

The Great Basin Incident Team shared a video showing the charred canyon as wildlife walk through the thinned-out, and now muddy forest.

"It doesn’t take a lot of rain in these areas, right? It can just send a surge of w

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