Garnet Fire grows in size over the weekend, crews battle blaze threatening Sequoias

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A increasing occurrence successful Central California.

Action News captured video of fume pushing into the entity connected Monday arsenic firefighters proceed to effort and summation containment of the Garnet Fire.

Lightning strikes started the occurrence much than 2 weeks ago, prompting thousands of firefighters from crossed the state to assistance conflict the blaze.

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Adrienne Freeman with the U.S. Forest Service says dormant timber and vegetation has been fueling the flames.

"There's conscionable much vigor connected the crushed to burn. So, you spot much smoke, you spot much spread, it's precise conducive to occurrence spread, and precise resistant to control," she said.

In the span of conscionable a mates of days, the occurrence grew by astir 20,000 acres.

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Officials privation radical to cognize each crews, connected the authorities and national level, are moving from the aforesaid program of action.

"It's precise hard to get to, there's not a batch of access, and determination aren't a batch of what we telephone holding features oregon places that we tin successfully marque containment," Freeman said.

Another large concern, the Sequoias.

Video from the U.S. Forest Service shows the information of the redwoods connected Monday afternoon.

Freeman says crews person prepared for this. Smoke jumpers person been positioned to assistance enactment retired ember fires successful the gangly trees.

"They bash person histrion climbing skills, and they are being deployed to ascent those trees, and really enactment retired those fires successful the trees," Freeman said.

As the firefight continues, the U.S. Forest Service encourages anyone with questions oregon concerns astir the Garnet Fire to scope retired to officials.

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