Riverdale raccoon starts fire

A raccoon started a fire in Riverdale early Monday morning — unintentionally, of course. “A raccoon got up there in the power lines, grounded himself out and set himself on fire,” said Riverdale fire chief Jared Sholly. “He fell and started a brush fire.” The fire — near I-84 and Riverdale Road in Weber County — burned less than a quarter of an acre. Firefighters responded at 3 a.m. and extinguished it in about 20 minutes. And the only casualty was the