Fresno County sees localized flooding, downed trees in storms

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- In Fresno County debris, fallen trees, and localized flooding are drafting effect from region leaders.

Fresno County Public Works is keeping a adjacent oculus connected weakened trees astir the region arsenic rain, winds, and snowfall determination through.

Damage from erstwhile years is making the trees much susceptible to falling and putting radical astatine risk.

"We person a fig of trees successful our Sierra and successful the upland areas that person been impacted by bark beetle and besides impacted by the bark beetle too," said Nathan Magsig, Fresno County Supervisor.

"Because of that, arsenic winds travel up and soils get saturated with water, a batch of trees tin thin to fall, and besides galore limbs tin thin to autumn disconnected trees arsenic well."

On Sunday afternoon, archetypal responders were called to Ockenden Ranch disconnected Tollhouse Road owed to reports of radical trapped successful a car nether a tree.

Action News saw respective archetypal responders astatine the scene, including 3 ambulances.

Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig wants radical to support those dangers successful caput and beryllium prepared if they caput up to play successful the snow.

"It's important to marque definite if you're going to spell up and bask the snow, person a conveyance that is due for that snow, instrumentality chains with you. They're required adjacent if you person a four-wheel thrust vehicle," said Magsig.

The County Office of Emergency Services is besides keeping an oculus connected little elevation areas prone to flooding.

So far, they said they've seen downed histrion limbs and localized flooding.

That's accordant with what they'd expect successful the archetypal storms of the year, and they haven't reached past year's severity.

"As acold arsenic thing that would elevate to the level of past twelvemonth wherever we'd person to activate our exigency operations center, we haven't adjacent reached that far; we're not adjacent adjacent to that close now," said Terri Mejorado, Fresno County OES Emergency Manager.

If you spot flooding oregon downed limbs that could origin information issues, you're asked to study them to the county.

The Fresno County Office of Emergency Services said the Kings River, the Friant, Pine Flat Dams, and the lakes down them person plentifulness of capableness to instrumentality connected much water.

OES besides has sensors successful the rivers crossed the region to assistance them instrumentality a much proactive alternatively than reactive effect if waters scope concerning levels.

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