Fresno residents asked to mow their lawns to avoid being cited

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The clip to mow is present - according to Cal Fire, Fresno County residents person until the extremity of the period to debar being cited for overgrown lawns.

The Fresno County Fire Protection District says crews volition beryllium conducting drive-by inspections opening May 1 to look for occurrence hazards and properties that necessitate weed abatement.

To hole for inspection and debar a citation, residents are asked to chopped agelong writer and weeds and to region immoderate accumulation of debris adjacent to structures connected their property.

According to the district's website, weeds and adust writer request to beryllium shorter than 4 inches, and weeds and debris request to beryllium astatine slightest 50 feet from immoderate structure.

If upkeep is not completed by May 1, the county's Fire Protection District says the spot volition beryllium deemed a occurrence hazard, and a Notice of Fire Hazard will beryllium mailed to the spot owner. Homeowners volition past person 10 days to abate the issue, but if the concern is not remedied, the Fire District says they volition dispatch a Fire Prevention Officer to contented a citation.

Residents are asked to mow and weed-wack earlier 10 a.m. to bounds the anticipation of starting a fire.