With warm hugs in the cold air, families on Saturday welcomed home 22 Utah firefighters back from a 16-day assignment battling wildfires in southern California.
A seven-vehicle convoy from the Greater Salt Lake Unified Fire Authority’s Northern Task Force 1 carried the men home, rolling along Navigator Drive, where they parked in front of the authority’s logistics building. Once the firemen — 18 Unified firefighters and four from West Valley City — started getting out of the trucks, children ran to greet the men, as their wives stood patiently in the parking lot. A few posed for photos with each other.