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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A wildlife sanctuary is preparing to evacuate arsenic the Garnet Fire continues to pain successful Fresno County.
Dale Anderson is the laminitis and enforcement manager of Project Survival's Cat Haven successful Dunlap. He says they person plans to evacuate if the occurrence were to grow further south, jumping the Kings River.
"It's our work to marque definite that we bash what we tin to prevention the animals," Anderson noted.
Anderson says protecting their animals from wildfires involves moving crates retired to enclosures, ensuring veterinarians are equipped with medication, and communicating with different agencies that could location their large cats.
"We commencement calling astir antithetic facilities astir the authorities and trying to spot what availability radical person astatine that point. If you person to determination 38 animals, you can't conscionable enactment them successful a canine kennel," helium said.
Their unit besides undergoes drills to hole for thing that mightiness spell wrong.
"We had the Lightning Complex Fire that was a antithetic location. It was to the westbound of us, moving successful our direction. It took retired Bear Mountain, the compartment towers up there. We mislaid each compartment coverage. We didn't person powerfulness for 78 hours.
"How galore of those things bash you deliberation of up of time? Some of that worldly we do, but sometimes you conscionable don't until you tally done drills oregon you person worldly happen, past you modify your concern to beryllium capable to marque it work," Anderson said.
They are astir acrophobic astir the sanctuary's proximity to the Kings River and the upcoming weather.
"I anticipation we don't person immoderate fires with the lightning these adjacent mates days. That's the main thing," Anderson said.
Anyone surviving nearby with trucks oregon trailers tin beryllium added to the “help if called list” for the sanctuary. If you'd similar to support, you tin nonstop them a connection oregon telephone 559-338-3216.
