Local crews responded to nearly 150 fires over Fourth of July holiday

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Video from July 4th shows a Clovis location up successful flames.

This blaze displaced Jeanine Smith and her 89-year-old parent connected Friday.

It was 1 of the 25 incidents Clovis Firefighters responded to connected the Fourth of July.

Meanwhile, successful Fresno, crews crossed the metropolis responded to 122 fires.

That's 10 much occurrence incidents compared to past year.

"It's conscionable occurrence aft occurrence aft fire. Our resources are conscionable moving nonstop," Fresno Fire spokesperson Josh Sellers said. "We really did unit an further 3 occurrence engines based connected the historical telephone measurement connected the 4th of July."

Sellers says a representation created by the metropolis helped crews respond to the back-to-back fires connected Friday night.

One of those incidents was adjacent Island Water Park successful northwest Fresno.

This video shows the assertive flames firefighters faced.

The American Red Cross of the Central Valley offered a helping manus to those who needed it implicit the vacation weekend.

"Every twelvemonth we expect that the Fourth of July play is going to beryllium incredibly engaged with fireworks," Taylor Poisall with the American Red Cross said.

American Red Cross spokeswoman Taylor Poisall says volunteers helped 20 radical crossed 4 Central Valley counties.

She says the days aft Independence Day are conscionable arsenic engaged with radical calling for assistance aft a fire.

Poisall wants radical to cognize the Red Cross is determination to help.

"We person astonishing volunteers, who are determination close down the occurrence section to beryllium capable to supply contiguous assistance, but we besides person betterment caseworkers who tin link you to our full web of disposable resources," she said.

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