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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After increasing astir 25% its size successful 24-hours the Coffee Pot Fire is opening to adjacent communities, but occurrence unit accidental this means crews are gaining control.
The Coffee Pot Fire grew 874 acres since yesterday and is present 4,552 acres, per the California Interagency Incident Management Team (CIIMT). Containment is inactive astatine 0%.
Personnel accidental the occurrence grew mostly successful a southerly absorption and present is approaching the Kaweah River, spurring caller evacuations warnings. However, the cautionary connection means crews are person to gaining control.
"The person the occurrence gets to our superior containment line, the better" Operations Section Chief Mike Wench said. "If we person occurrence connected our enactment we tin clasp that, and it volition commencement showing immoderate containment."
Chief Wench says astir of the fume tin beryllium attributed to the backing occurrence that the firefighters created successful effort to prevent the confederate limb from moving northbound up the hillside. Scratch Creek volition beryllium utilized arsenic superior containment diagnostic successful this area.
According to occurrence officials, superior containment lines are present 65% complete.
Three, 10-person Fire Use Modules were capable to necktie caller lines into fire's borderline connected the eastbound broadside of the blaze adjacent their spike camp, the country wherever firefighters slumber (shown arsenic a purple structure connected the map). Crews are readying to link the enactment to Mineral King Road and adjacent the spread successful the northwest quadrant of the fire.
