13 Boy Scouts and 5 leaders were evacuated from inside the 17 Mile Cave at 16000 W. Arco Highway early Saturday morning. Four additional people were in the cave. Two of those reportedly fled the ...

On Feb. 24, 2018 at approximately 2:40 a.m., the Idaho Falls Fire Department was dispatched to 16000 W. Arco Hwy for a report of smoke from a campfire inside the 17 Mile Cave and persons trying to ...

IDAHO FALLS — Multiple people, including 13 Boy Scouts and five of their leaders, were evacuated from a cave early Saturday morning after a fire was reported.

There were three groups of Boy Scouts in the 17 Mile Cave when it filled with smoke early Saturday morning but, it wasn’t their fire. The scouts say a group of young men entered the cave while ...