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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – On Tuesday, the Fresno Fire Department practiced controlled burns successful the fields of the city's wastewater installation successful West Fresno.
“We tin really spot wherever the occurrence is burning, and we tin really spot strategically antithetic occurrence connected the ground. Anytime you enactment occurrence connected the ground, determination is simply a batch of risk, truthful it requires a precise coordinated effort,” said Battalion Chief Brian Price.
He says determination is nary grooming similar first-hand experience.
“A ample portion of being palmy successful this arena is not conscionable knowing what to bash but knowing however to work what's happening and past conscionable your program based connected the conditions,” Price continued.
While it whitethorn beryllium the opening of June, it has already been a engaged occurrence play with the Ford and Rector fires past period and a vegetation occurrence past nighttime that threatened homes adjacent Peach and Tulare avenues.
Many of the firefighters grooming contiguous were the aforesaid ones who enactment retired that aforesaid occurrence Monday night. Within a day's notice, these aforesaid firefighters could beryllium anyplace connected the West Coast if a telephone for assistance comes implicit the radio.
“Last year, we really sent resources each the mode up to Oregon respective times,” said Price.
Firefighters accidental the champion happening you tin bash to hole for a wildfire is make a defensible abstraction of 100 feet astir your location and program if you request to permission your home.
