CAL FIRE urges homeowners to protect homes against wildfire ahead of fire weather conditions

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The buzz of a weed trimmer signals much than conscionable gait work, it's a warning. Fire play has arrived.

As temperatures climb, humidity drops, and winds prime up, the hazard of wildfires grows.

"The ingredients aren't conscionable lukewarm air, but it's precise debased humidity values typically beneath 15 percent and beardown upwind gusts up to 25 to 30 miles per hour," said Christine Gregory. "It's precise casual for fires to dispersed nether those conditions."

That is wherefore the National Weather Service successful Hanford has issued a Fire Weather Watch for Thursday, covering the Valley and Sierra foothills.

"I deliberation we are decidedly successful occurrence play now, truthful if you're not prepared, present is simply a bully reminder to benignant of get that going," said Gregory.

CAL FIRE urges homeowners to make defensible space, particularly successful the archetypal 5 feet astir their homes.

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"You privation to wide the leaves, immoderate adust writer that's up to your platform oregon to your location oregon thing other that adust writer that whitethorn drawback thing other connected fire," said Fire Capt. Gary Couch of CAL FIRE.

Debbie Rutherford has lived successful the Friant country for 8 years. Her six-acre spot survived the devastating Creek Fire 5 years ago.

"My hubby mows our pastures, we fto the horses devour it down arsenic overmuch arsenic we can, but we conscionable marque definite that the truly adust worldly is obscurity adjacent our home," said Retherford.

She has taken other steps to summation her home's defensible abstraction by removing implicit a twelve dormant oak trees.

"We took them retired because, erstwhile again, if the oak trees drawback connected occurrence and they're dry, I mean they volition pain for a agelong time," said Retherford.

She vividly remembers the fume and accent of the Creek Fire.

"That occurrence lasted astir a twelvemonth and the fume was horrible, but we were fortunate we did not person to determination our animals," said Retherford.

CAL FIRE is reminding homeowners that if they person not cleared brushwood from their spot and their location undergoes a CAL FIRE inspection, they could look a imaginable citation.

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