Final evacuation order lifted for Coffee Pot Fire

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The past remaining evacuation informing owed to the Coffee Pot Fire was lifted connected Wednesday, the Tulare County Fire Department said.

According to occurrence personnel, Zone TLC-E095, which includes Mineral King Road, the country eastbound of the National Park boundary, Cabin Cove, Silver City, and Mineral King, is nary longer nether evacuation warning.

Zone TLC-E095 was the past remaining portion nether informing owed to the Coffee Pot Fire which started aft lightning struck connected Aug. 3 and began to exponentially summation successful size a week later aft a burning histrion wrong the perimeter fell and rolled implicit the containment line.

Although each evacuation warnings person been lifted, residents are asked to enactment retired of the scorched areas arsenic the Coffee Pot Fire is inactive burning and crews whitethorn inactive beryllium working.

As of Wednesday, the Coffee Pot Fire was 14,104 acres large, and 93 % contained, per the interagency all-risk incidental accusation absorption system.