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Wednesday, September 10, 2025 6:26AM
It's been implicit 2 weeks since lightning ignited the Garnet Fire successful Fresno County, raising concerns astir firefighting efforts.
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's been much than 2 weeks since lightning struck successful the Sierra Mountains and sparked the Garnet Fire successful Central California.
Since then, there's been interest astir the firefighting efforts.
"The occurrence did get into the grove. It did travel implicit the Grove Road. But precise debased strength fire," explained a occurrence official.
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Action News was granted entree to the hub astatine Avocado Lake wherever officials hosted a virtual gathering connected Tuesday.
The U.S. Forest Service hosted the gathering connected Facebook to support radical informed connected what's happening and to reply concerns from radical surviving adjacent the Sierra.
"The Garnet Fire volition pain until it snows, is that true? Ok, abbreviated answer, uh, nary but the longer mentation is the extremity is to get containment successful the adjacent 14 days," said Fire Behavior Analyst, Kevin Montoya.
Nathan Judy with the Forest Service said they're ramping up efforts to support radical informed connected timely and factual information.
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"What is your thoughts connected radical saying this occurrence is being mismanaged?
We've heard that folks are talking astir mismanagement. We person experts connected our teams. In operations, successful logistics, and we cognize however to combat fire, we've been doing this for decades,"
Judy encourages radical with questions oregon concerns to scope retired to them via email oregon societal media and accidental they program to upload videos to YouTube of operations and what firefighters are doing to conflict the blaze.
Meanwhile, a petition calling for the removal of the Sierra National Forest Supervisor is circulating online.
Action News reached retired to the communications squad but we person not heard back.
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