ROCK SPRINGS – BLM and Sweetwater County Fire District #1 firefighters have extinguished the Sand Butte fire 33 miles southeast of Rock Springs. The fire had consumed 77 acres of grass and sage.

Sweetwater County Fire District #1 Chief Jim Wamsley said that the fire was lighting caused. Wamsley said that the fire was reported at 8 p.m. Thursday night, units arrived on scene by 10 p.m. that night and suppression efforts continued until midnight and resumed at 7 a.m. on Friday.

The fire was declared to be contained and controlled at 4 p.m. Wamsley said that some localized rainfall helped to contain the spread of the fire.