| Could Salt Lake City manage a catastrophic wildfire? Mayor Erin Mendenhall says the city is prepared with enough water, training and resources to contain a major fire, but it's still something that worries her. “None of us would have guessed that in the month of January, all of Los Angeles would be consumed in fire,” Mendenhall told the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards Wednesday. She continued, “But fire is now a 365-day threat. I think what we’re seeing and what our firefighters are on the frontlines experiencing there is reshaping the way that we calculate our readiness for different disasters.” Learning from the tragedy Salt Lake has learned and trained from major mass tragedies before — such as the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in 2022. Salt Lake City police held a meeting for school administrators to talk about the lessons learned, current needs and resources as well as its availability to provide training and evaluate school doors and locks, Dennis Romboy reported. “We are always learning from the tragedies that happen around the country and evaluating how we’ve thought about this potential,” Mendenhall said. “So we will do that (with the Southern California fires) absolutely. But right now, we still have over a dozen firefighters and engines out there fighting.” Read more about how the city evaluated readiness for big events. More in Utah Photo gallery: Utah Jazz players visit Primary Children’s Hospital (Deseret News) Ogden City Council makes its PATH to Citizenship program permanent (KUER) Ogden, Salt Lake named best-performing cities (Axios) Investing in crypto? Study reports Utah financed record $35M to fraudsters (St George News) St. George welcomes new Intermountain Health clinic to meet growing primary care needs (St George News) Utah teachers, stretched by stress and student behavior, are asking for more funding (Standard-Examiner) Park City, mindful of New Orleans-style truck attack, prohibits traffic on Main Street during Sundance (The Park Record) State report recommends cosmetology licensing reforms to boost accessibility, safety and economic opportunity (Cache Valley Daily) 2024 was Utah's second-warmest year on record. These counties broke records (KSL) | 