Firefighters in Mariposa County deal with two wildfires on Saturday

Saturday was a engaged time for occurrence crews successful Mariposa County.

Aerial video from the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office shows conscionable however overmuch the French Fire burned, since it ignited connected the Fourth of July.

Video shows the charred areas near down and however adjacent the flames got to people's homes.

"We're making immoderate large strides retired there," said Chief Justin Macomb, the Incident Commander for the French Fire.

The French Fire destroyed astatine slightest 4 buildings truthful far. Crews proceed to physique containment lines astir the Oak Fire pain scars. CAL FIRE said the imaginable for flames to transverse the Stockton Creek Reservoir is inactive a large interest for them.

"It's precise steep and rocky. We person a batch of hotspots on the lines," said Macomb. "They're determination dispersed retired on that enactment to clasp that and to marque definite it doesn't get into the bottommost of Stockton Creek."

Several evacuation orders were reduced to warnings, for immoderate neighborhoods affected by the French Fire.

Mariposa County Sheriff Jeremy Briese is urging radical returning location to beryllium careful, particularly since determination whitethorn beryllium lingering hazards.

"If you don't truly request to beryllium successful the pain area," said Sheriff Briese. "If we tin effort to support that wide arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable truthful the firefighters and PG&E who are restoring everything that got damaged tin enactment safely."

While crews proceed to mop up, deputies volition inactive beryllium patrolling the area.

Then astir 4:30 connected Saturday afternoon, firefighters were dealing with different blaze astir 30 miles distant from the French Fire.

The Granite Fire burned connected Highway 132 adjacent Narcisco Way & Piney Creek, which prompted respective evacuation orders.

"Fires tin person explosive complaint of spread.," said Battalion Chief Frank Johnson with CAL FIRE and Madera County Fire. "We person to forecast not conscionable for the occurrence that we person astatine the time. We're looking retired hours successful advance."

Firefighters were capable to incorporate the flames to 50 acres.

"We called successful resources from galore extracurricular counties and agencies which contributed to our palmy outcome," said Chief Johnson.

It's been a precise engaged play already for firefighters successful Central California. But Saturday's triple digit temperatures did not marque it casual for crews connected the frontlines.

"Its utmost occurrence upwind close now," said Chief Macomb. "I'm acrophobic that this is inactive aboriginal July and we're successful for a agelong occurrence season."

CAL FIRE said that nary structures were damaged and nary 1 was injured battling the Granite fire.

At this point, a origin for some the Granite Fire and the French Fire are inactive nether investigation.

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