Fire crews battled the Garnet Fire for a third straight week

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Meteorologists explained what has fixed occurrence crews the precocious manus is favorable weather, which means moist and chill conditions expected to past done Friday.

"I cognize your anxiousness level due to the fact that I stock your anxiousness level," said Chief Steve McQuillan, Shaver Lake Fire Department.

Five years agone this month, the Shaver Lake assemblage was battling the Creek Fire. Many residents are expressing PTSD from that historical wildfire arsenic the Garnet Fire grows successful size.

"You don't slumber well; the fume wakes you up astatine night," said Cissy Van Vleet, Shaver Lake Resident

"The world is nary of america thought we'd beryllium present again, particularly this soon," said Chief McQuillan.

The Garnet Fire was sparked by 1 of 40 lightning strikes successful the Sierra National Forest.

The occurrence lookout astatine Buck Rock spotting the infinitesimal a onslaught hits the ground.

"I'm conscionable 12 miles distant from the occurrence erstwhile it archetypal started and fortunately from my location, it was moving distant from us, truthful we truly had a beforehand enactment spot for a fewer days," said Mich Michigan, Fire Lookout for the Hume Lake Ranger District Fire Lookout.

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The wildfire has been burning for 19 consecutive days. On Thursday, occurrence crews held a briefing wrong the Shaver Lake Community Center.

Officials pinpointing the areas wherever crews made the largest gains done creating a backburn from Dinkey Creek to Bret's Mill.

"The enactment that crews person created retired determination are arsenic wide arsenic this building," said Chief McQuillan.

The California Interagency Incident Management Team 5 shared a peculiar transportation to the New York Fire Department during Thursday's briefing.

24 years ago, a squad of astir 100 firefighters flew to Washington, D.C. to assistance with the onslaught connected the Pentagon.

This September 11, a twelve firefighters from the NYFD are stationed astatine basal camps warring the Garnet Fire.

"Today, we person New York Fire Department unit connected our fire. I privation to accidental convey you to those folks. What goes astir comes around," said Alex McBath, Incident Commander for the Garnet Fire.

The wildfire met with bipartisan enactment from section to authorities authorities leaders, including U.S. Senator Adam Schiff.

"When you person a fire, careless of enactment affiliation, you enactment with everyone due to the fact that occurrence doesn't halt astatine a Republican location oregon a Democrat house. It conscionable rolls through," said Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig.

What has prevented those flames from rolling done Shaver Lake is favorable weather.

"We've had a agelong of chill and moist conditions that person been truly conducive to getting a batch of enactment done connected the occurrence and we'll person 1 much time of that time wherever we'll person these cooler temperatures; wherever we person a batch of humidity hanging around," said Incident Meteorologist Terry Leno.

Beginning Friday morning, the bid station astatine Avocado Lake volition beryllium nary more. The station volition beryllium breached down and relocated to Harlan Ranch. Some 2,000 occurrence crews and unit volition person a caller location aboriginal that evening.

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