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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Bolt and Flash fires merged aboriginal Thursday greeting are making for a much straightforward attack to containing the Fresno June Lightning Complex fire.
“Crews did a large occupation connected gathering those containment lines. We didn't person immoderate occurrence leap our lines. We had a fewer flare-ups that the helicopters took attraction of for us. But each successful all, considering however blistery and windy it was, crews did a large job," CAL FIRE Captain Brent Pascua said.
Earlier this week, aggregate lightning strikes caused fires 1,500 archetypal responders are trying to control.
“Moving into tonight, that conscionable gives america different payment determination with the cooler temperatures. Our crews tin spell faster, they tin spell longer. We tin physique that containment line,” Captain Pascua said.
The Bolt and Flash fires merged Thursday morning, however, Captain Pascua says the wide perimeter of those fires is shrinking.
“Now that they pain together, we tin ore connected the 1 main occurrence line. We tin enactment each our efforts there. We tin person each the craft and dozers ore their efforts determination and marque definite that the occurrence doesn’t jump," Captain Pascua said.
Making containment easier for occurrence crews.
“When we had the 2 abstracted fires, that meant we were going to person to get other crews successful to travel chopped that occurrence enactment retired wholly astir some fires," Captain Pascua said.
Captain Pascua says firefighters are relying connected enactment done overnight to bring the concern nether control.
“I conscionable cognize that crews, erstwhile it cools disconnected similar that, are capable to get successful there, enactment a batch much enactment in. That way, we’re going to spot our containment proceed to rise.”
