Fire along Tule River leads to controlled burn

TULE RIVER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Porterville firefighters responded to a writer occurrence on the Tule River Tuesday night.

Firefighters responded to the writer occurrence conscionable earlier midnight. Upon their accomplishment and earlier extinguishing the fire, crews were capable to instrumentality a controlled burn.

On the National Park Service's website, it states that a "controlled burn" is utilized to conscionable absorption objectives. It states that a controlled pain is 1 of the astir important tools utilized to negociate a occurrence today.

Crews did a controlled pain to trim hazards earlier they afloat extinguished the fire. The controlled pain volition assistance mitigate aboriginal hazards successful the area.