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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Evacuation orders stay successful spot connected Thursday for areas threatened by the Coffee Pot Fire.
As of Thursday morning, the wildfire has burned 5,683 acres successful Sequoia Kings and Canyon National Park and is 0% contained.
According to Cal Fire, the occurrence contained to determination downslope towards the South Fork of the Kaweah River astatine the Scratch Creek junction. Hotshot crews past began enactment successful Scratch Creek to incorporate the fire. In the northeast, Cal Fire says that firefighters proceed monitoring the low-intensity occurrence burning successful the Salt Creek Grove of the Sequoias.
Cal Fire says that conditions connected Wednesday nighttime were favorable to commencement the strategical occurrence cognition astatine the northeast country adjacent Case Mountain. Crews volition proceed the strategical firing cognition successful the northeast and volition besides initiate an aerial occurrence cognition connected the southwest flank adjacent Bennet Creek to dilatory the fire's dispersed downslope.
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office issued evacuation orders connected Thursday for the country northbound of South Fork Drive, eastbound of Skyline Drive (Salt Creek, occurrence power road), southbound of Skyline Drive (South of Case Mountain and Homers Nose), and West of the National Park Boundary.
According to officials, evacuation warnings are inactive successful effect for zones TLC-E128-A, TLC-E127-B, and portion TLC-E094-B. For a existent database of evacuation orders and warnings, click here.
