Utah’s Brian Head Fire started while a cabin owner was doing yard work to protect his home from a potential wildfire, says defense attorney

The irony isn’t lost on Andy Deiss. A wildfire that burned more than 71,000 acres last June started at a Brian Head property where Robert Ray Lyman, 61, was trying to create space around his cabin, to protect it from potential wildfire, according to Deiss, who is Lyman’s defense attorney. “This whole business arose, ironically, because he was making or creating a fire break,” Deiss said during a Thursday interview.A fire break is a barrier of open space that works as an o