This woman’s land has become a refuge for pets and other animals fleeing Utah’s Pole Creek and Bald Mountain fires

( Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune ) Nicole Boothe and her daughter Jayla, 2, walk among the 14 goats, 2 ducks and 20 chickens she is fostering on her 1-acre property for evacuated residents of the Pole Creek fire. The fires have displaced approximately 6,000 people living in the Woodland Hills, Elk Ridge and Covered Bridge communities.