Evacuation order issued as Coffee Pot Fire in Tulare County grows

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has issued an evacuation bid arsenic the Coffee Pott occurrence grows.

Residents successful the country northbound of South Fork Drive, East of Skyline Drive (Salt Creek, occurrence power road), South of Skyline Drive (South of Case Mountain and Homers Nose), and West of the National Park Boundary should permission present earlier the occurrence reaches the community.

The Coffee Pot Fire has burned implicit 4,500 acres southeast of Three Rivers.

Firefighters look steep terrain arsenic they enactment to physique containment lines astir the flames.

The blaze has burned uncontrollably since lightning sparked the occurrence connected August 3.

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