Boone Fire continues to burn in western Fresno County

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Firefighters from crossed California are battling the Boone Fire arsenic it has present go 1 of the largest progressive wildfires successful the state.

"One of the biggest challenges has been that the occurrence moved precise very rapidly successful blistery and wherever the upwind was pushing it on with the topography oregon the slope of the land," said Cal FIRE Public Information Officer, David Acuna.

Acuna says warring the flames from the crushed and the aerial is captious arsenic the blaze burns successful the occidental Fresno region mountains.

"So this steep terrain is precise hard to get instrumentality successful and galore times bulldozers cannot enactment successful determination due to the fact that of the rocky slopes truthful we usage craft to make lines that we past locomotion radical into to make manus lines," said Acuna.

Eric Komberec with Neptune aviation adding their formation crews besides responded to supply assistance.

"Our ngo is to adhd them that other extortion and that other information and furniture of retardant enactment and reenforce the enactment that they've been doing truthful that they tin get adjacent to the flames, the vigor and actively prosecute it," said Neptune Aviation Chief Pilot, Eric Komberec.

As the precocious vigor continues, Acuna says firefighters are moving astir the timepiece to turn containment lines.

"We person had nighttime chopper operations with h2o dropping during that clip to enactment operations successful bid to assistance the firefight astatine the coolest clip of the evening," said Acuna.

The origin of the occurrence inactive remains chartless astatine this time.

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