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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Park Fire burning successful Northern California adjacent the metropolis of Chico has scorched thousands of acres, driving radical from their homes and destroying hundreds of buildings.
Firefighters from crossed the Central Valley are lending a helping manus to conflict the fire, including crews from Fresno County Cal Fire and the Clovis Fire Department.
"It takes a squad effort," said Gary Couch with Fresno County Cal Fire.
Chad Fitzgerald with the Clovis Fire Department explained moving unneurotic to assistance support radical is conscionable portion of the job.
"The maestro communal assistance strategy is truly designed to effort and guarantee that the resources that everybody pays for get deployed successful a mode that does the top bully for the top fig of people," Fitzgerald said.
So far, Cal Fire and Clovis Fire person sent aggregate resources up to Northern California to combat the fire.
"We person a full of 10 engines, 2 onslaught teams, which consists of 5 engines each with a liter, to the Park Fire," Couch said.
"Right now, we person 2 engines and 7 unit assigned to the Park Fire. They've been retired determination and volition beryllium retired determination for astir apt 14 days," Fitzgerald said. "They tin widen that. They've been determination for a portion and they're doing a large job."
Over the past fewer days, Cal Fire crews person been moving connected protecting homes successful the area. That's thing firefighters with Clovis Fire person besides been prioritizing adjacent successful the caller blistery weather.
"They're doing a batch of hard enactment to effort and support homes and get the blaze enactment out, but the further summertime upwind itself truly impacts the capableness for that occurrence to possibly get immoderate cooling overnight," Fitzgerald said. "Heat waves similar this and the ones we've experienced precocious conscionable amplify the effects of what a blaze tin bash to a assemblage successful an country that large."
Other agencies are besides helping out. A spokesperson with the American Red Cross of Central Valley confirmed that 3 volunteers from Santa Barbara person been sent to the Park Fire.
Although ample wildfires similar the Park Fire are devastating, officials said they tin besides beryllium a bully reminder for others to program ahead.
“What's important to instrumentality distant isn't conscionable the daze and awe, but applying it to what tin I bash successful the aboriginal if I were to beryllium threatened by a occurrence oregon what tin I bash to instrumentality preventative steps of my ain home," Fitzgerald said.
