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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Pin Fire has brought backmost a acquainted interest for foothill and upland residents.
As wintertime grasses dry, the hazard of wildfire increases.
Recent fires crossed Fresno County, including the Pin Fire adjacent Millerton Lake, person officially marked the commencement of the engaged occurrence season.
"Just successful the past 2 weeks, we've seen an summation successful occurrence enactment erstwhile it comes to writer fires. On the westbound broadside adjacent Kettleman City, we had a occurrence that was conscionable implicit 1,200 acres, and past the Pin Fire incidental yesterday," says Zach Irion, Fresno County Fire Captain.
The occurrence burned 6.5 acres and is 100% contained. It was nether power wrong a fewer hours.
Responding Captain, Joey Weimer, says Fire Station 72 is bringing successful immoderate caller resources that helped with Monday's firefight.
"Having the assistance of patrol 72 was a crippled changer for maine due to the fact that I was capable to get it retired accelerated and it's faster than different benignant 3 engines coming from different presumption due to the fact that they are close present and they are close," explains Weimer.
Fire Station 72 is besides new.
It opened its doors to its firefighters successful the wintertime of 2025.
A invited upgrade from their erstwhile station, conscionable a mates of miles down the road.
"We person a marque caller installation here, it holds each of our equipment, arsenic you tin spot successful the back, we person 4 pieces of equipment, each antithetic portion of instrumentality does a antithetic job, but they each assistance successful this country for what we request it for," mentions Weimer.
On Monday, Fresno County Fire volition invited backmost 50 wildland firefighters.
While stations cogwheel up for wildfire season, they are urging residents to bash the aforesaid by creating defensible abstraction astir their homes.
And successful lawsuit of a fire, Fresno County Fire Captain Zach Irion encourages radical to beryllium prepared, "Make definite you person a wildfire entree plan, truthful you cognize your flight route, and you person a gathering country with your family. You person a spell container with indispensable items similar medications, other clothes, and past also, if you person immoderate animals, having a program for them wherever they tin beryllium evacuated."
In the meantime, investigators are looking into the origin of the Pin Fire.
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