Fresno Fire Department reports an increase in grass fires

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Dry writer and precocious vigor are a unsafe mix.

The Fresno Fire Department reports that determination person already been 178 writer fires successful the metropolis this year.

"We truly haven't deed the blistery somesthesia yet, and we're anticipating things are going to beryllium busy; they ever are," said Josh Sellers of the Fresno Fire Department.

This clip past year, determination had lone been 150 writer fires.

Fire crews are asking radical to bash their portion to forestall a disaster.

"Making definite your spot is escaped of adust vegetation, tract mowed. Now is simply a large clip to region it earlier temperatures truly get hot. Even small things similar making definite you cleanable your gutters, conifer needles, adust leaves, thing that could drawback occurrence and origin an incident."

Over astatine Fresno Ag Hardware disconnected Gettysburg and First, radical person been buying mowers and weed trimmers to get fire-ready.

"There was 1 time past week wherever we had, I believe, similar 15-16 drawstring trimmer units alone," said Chuck Newton, store manager.

Creating a defensible abstraction astir your location could prevention it from going up successful flames.

The archetypal 5 feet astir the location should beryllium wholly clear. Grass oregon vegetation wrong 100 feet should beryllium chopped low.

You should ever bash gait enactment successful the greeting oregon evening hours erstwhile temperatures are cooler and the hazard of sparking a occurrence is lower.

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