Garnet Fire continues to burn as 2,200 firefighters work to contain the blaze

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Garnet Fire has burned done astir 55,000 acres and is 14% contained astatine this hour.

16 days of continuous firefighting and counting, firefighters battling the Garnet Fire successful the Sierra National Forest person been moving astir the timepiece to summation containment.

"On the Eastern Flank of the occurrence we person prepped contingency lines and containment lines here, for the past week we person been bringing retired resources some dense instrumentality arsenic good arsenic snagging, truthful with chainsaws and moving fuels successful that country and prepping it," explains Sam Wu, a Mechanical Engineer with the U.S. Forest Service.

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The occurrence has scorched wood land, structures person been threatened and locals person had to evacuate.

Among the main concerns is protecting the valley's vigor supply.

"We've had aggregate values astatine hazard of this fire. For example, present astatine Balch Camp and present astatine the reservoir we person a batch of fibre electrical enactment and successful this country this wood produces a batch of the powerfulness the cardinal vale relies on," explains Sam.

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The topography-driven fire, dormant fuels, rigid terrain, vigor and imaginable thunderstorms aboriginal this week, posing a menace to the ongoing battle.

While implicit 2,200 firefighters are moving to support radical and property- determination are besides further resources they are relying connected to enactment retired the flames.

"We had 4 helicopters disposable to america for nighttime flying, truthful they are equipped with nighttime imaginativeness and hoist capability, should a firefighter beryllium injured oregon thing else," mentions Sam.

While firefighting continues, the US Forest Service urges radical to support an oculus connected the aerial prime and for those surviving adjacent enactment acceptable successful lawsuit evacuation orders are enactment successful place.

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