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FRESNO Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno June Lightning Complex Fire has prompted the region to contented evacuation orders successful immoderate areas of Fresno County.
In response, the exigency operations halfway has been activated to assistance those affected by the 3 fires that person combined into one, animals included.
The County of Fresno has collaborated with respective agencies to assistance marque definite those with livestock person a harmless spot to location their animals.
"We're present to assistance them and immoderate they need, they fto america cognize and we'll bash immoderate we tin to accommodate that," said Assistant Agriculture Commissioner for the Fresno County Fairgrounds, Mario Reeves.
Reeves says helium does not needfully cognize erstwhile animals mightiness amusement up astatine the fairgrounds, but erstwhile they do, unit are acceptable to assist.
All owners person to bash is amusement up.
"The region fundamentally provides the nutrient for the animals, things needed, similar halters, pb ropes, immoderate mightiness beryllium needed to attraction for the animals," Reeves said.
Goats, sheep, cattle, oregon immoderate livestock are invited into the gates.
"That would see chickens, turkeys, ducks if they're livestock," helium said.
As for keeping way of who owns the livestock, a strategy is acceptable up.
"We're going to grounds the animal's fig and benignant that person travel successful and fundamentally delegate them to a pen and constitute down that location," Reeves said.
Reeves says arsenic of close now, determination is not a clip restraint connected however agelong the animals are allowed to stay.
"As agelong arsenic the exigency is ongoing. there's not going to beryllium immoderate occupation with a clip limit," Reeves said.
The Fresno County Fairgrounds are unfastened to person animals from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., however, they volition enactment unfastened aboriginal to those who interaction them up of clip done their website.
For assistance with transporting animals straight to the fairgrounds, click here.
