Emergency responders work on a wild land fire that is threatening homes in Saratoga Springs, Utah, Friday, June 22, 2012. About 1,000 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials were calling in additional aircraft to fight the fast-moving fire near Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. At one point, the fire threatened an explosives factory. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; PROVO DAILY HERALD OUT; MAGS OUT
Emergency responders work on a wild land fire that is threatening homes in Saratoga Springs, Utah, Friday, June 22, 2012. About 1,000 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials were calling in additional aircraft to fight the fast-moving fire near Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. At one point, the fire threatened an explosives factory. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; PROVO DAILY HERALD OUT; MAGS OUT
Lisel Christiansen packs her van with items as she prepares to leave her home in Eagle Mountain, Utah Friday, June 22, 2012. Officials say about 250 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials say the blaze just west of the Saratoga Springs landfill has burned more than 750 acres. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Paul Fraughton)
Smoke fills the sky as a fire burns near Eagle Mountain, Utah Friday, June 22, 2012. Officials say about 250 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials say the blaze just west of the Saratoga Springs landfill has burned more than 750 acres. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Paul Fraughton)
Fire approaches homes near Saratoga Springs, Utah on Friday, June 22, 2012. About 1,000 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials were calling in additional aircraft to fight the fast-moving fire near Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain. At one point, the fire threatened an explosives factory. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Jeffrey D. Allred) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; PROVO DAILY HERALD OUT; MAGS OUT
Smoke fills the sky as a fire burns near Eagle Mountain, Utah Friday, June 22, 2012. Officials say about 250 homes are being evacuated after high winds kicked up a fire near a northern Utah dump. Fire officials say the blaze just west of the Saratoga Springs landfill has burned more than 750 acres. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Paul Fraughton)
Unpredictable winds and high temperatures were challenging crews in their battle Saturday against a Utah wildfire that forced more than 2,300 people to flee their homes.
Firefighters remained posted around houses in Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City, after the blaze burned within a quarter mile of some homes Friday, says Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Teresa Rigby.
No homes have burned, she said, and fire officials want to see what the nearly 9-square-mile fire on tinder-dry grasslands does Saturday afternoon before deciding whether residents can return to their homes.
Rigby says an updated count shows an evacuation order affects nearly 600 homes and over 2,300 residents.
The fire that officials believe was started Thursday by target shooters is 30 percent contained.
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