NORTH OGDEN, Utah (ABC4) — With the much-needed rain comes the possibility of flooding. That’s especially true for the people who live near the Willard Peak Fire burn scar. Today, neighbors placed 300 sandbags that the city provided along the mountainside in hopes of preventing any possible runoff from making it to the homes below.

Just a week and a half ago, more than 100 homes were evacuated in North Ogden as strong winds pushed the Willard Peak Fire down the mountainside toward nearby neighborhoods.

“It started down there,” Alex Webb can be heard saying in a video he took from his home showing the thick smoke produced by the fire. He continued. “It moved up the canyon and it’s basically moving towards us.”

When firefighters extinguished the fire, it had burned a total of 577 acres an

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