Evacuation warnings issued as Coffee Pot Fire burns in Tulare County

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Tulare County Fire Department reports that Evacuation Warnings person been issued connected Tuesday owed to the Coffee Pot Fire successful Sequoia National Park.

The zones autumn northbound of South Fork Drive, eastbound of Skyline Drive, southbound of Mineral King Road, and westbound of the National Park Boundary.

The occurrence section says radical successful those zones should hole to evacuate the country if needed.

The National Park Service says the blaze has burned much than 13-hundred acres with nary containment.

The occurrence was sparked by lightning connected the greeting of August 3rd.

Officials accidental the occurrence enactment has picked up, igniting dense brushwood and crushed fuels.