But he's training a Salt Lake-based employee of WET Designs, Scott Turnbow, to take over. Turnbow will be in charge when the cauldron is relighted again on Feb. 8, to mark the second anniversary of the start of the 2002 Olympics.

The process is a little different since the cauldron was moved from atop Rice-Eccles Stadium after the Olympics and put on permanent display at the park constructed adjacent to 500 South.

During the Olympics, the flame was lighted by the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" U.S. men's hockey team at the base of the tower and manually hauled up the glass-and-steel to the cauldron by a hidden trio.

Now the flame is ignited directly in the cauldron, where water flows to keep the 900-degree flame from melting the steel between the panels. The 12-foot glass cauldron also makes the flame look bigger because all of it can be seen.

Utahns will be able to see the flame evenings throughout the youth games, which end Feb. 7 with closing ceremonies that will also mark the upcoming two-year anniversary of the Olympics.

On Feb. 8, it will be relighted at noon and burn through 10 p.m., said Fraser Bullock, who served as SLOC president until the organization dissolved last year. "There's nothing like commemorating the actual date," Bullock said.

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