Fires destroy Utah mobile homes, block route to Yellowstone

Blazes in the U.S. West have blocked a major route to Yellowstone National Park during tourist season and tore through a mobile home park in Utah, leaving residences destroyed and people displaced.

High winds pushed a northern Utah brush fire out of a field and into a neighborhood, destroying at least 10 homes in trailer park.

The wildfire has burned about 12 square miles in the Bridger-Teton National Forest and closed a 40-mile section of U.S. 191/189, a highway heavily used by travelers heading across Interstate 80 to the park and Jackson Hole.

New fires also broke out in remote areas of national forests in the western part of the state.

Authorities took aim at a fast-moving wildfire in southwest Idaho and slowed the flames Wednesday.

Officials called in retardant bombers and additional firefighters to strengthen containment lines around the blaze burning in grass and sagebrush 15 miles east of Boise.