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WONDER VALLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - With lightning strikes imaginable arsenic storms stay successful the forecast for the Sierra Nevada and foothills, Cal Fire is doing what it tin to beryllium acceptable successful lawsuit lightning starts a fire.
Jesse Lopez from Wonder Valley says helium remembers seeing the flames turn person to his location aft a lightning onslaught started what was past called the Bolt Fire.
"It was coming down and we were truly nervous," Lopez said.
He says his lad called to archer him that thunder and lightning shook the house, and the powerfulness concisely went out. He says soon aft the occurrence started, helium and his neighbors called 911.
"It burnt that full country and past went that way," Lopez said looking backmost astatine what happened and pointing to a pain scar.
The occurrence continued to turn until it met with different fires successful the country that were besides caused by aggregate lightning strikes. Cal Fire called it the Fresno June Lightning Complex occurrence and yet grew to implicit 10,000 acres.
"A occurrence starting, whether it's manmade oregon Mother Nature caused it, inactive could beryllium devastating," Cal Fire Public Information Officer Gary Couch said.
He says that astir fires are started by humans, and these fires dispersed similar immoderate other. He says they're acceptable if thing were to spark, contempt galore crews and resources being dispatched to ample fires burning crossed the state.
'It depends connected erstwhile we person if we've acted the lightning plan, past that could conscionable beryllium if we person a bid of lightning travel through, past we tin conscionable nonstop 1 motor retired to investigate. And past if it is excessively overmuch for them to grip with 1 resource, past they'll telephone for further resources," helium said.
He wants radical successful fire-prone areas to beryllium acceptable to spell -and bash their portion to support their homes harmless and prepared.
And portion Lopez believes there's not overmuch near to pain by his house, helium inactive wants to support his location safe.
"We decidedly support each the weeds down," Lopez said. "We person cows sometimes horses eating up each the houses and stuff."
Cal Fire besides says it is important to retrieve that rainfall apt doesn't enactment retired the full occurrence that tin travel with lightning, and sometimes the occurrence doesn't turn until days later.
