Local fire agencies prepared for busy summer season

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Temperatures crossed cardinal California are heating up arsenic upwind whips done adust fields, elevating the region's occurrence danger.

Just past week, the metropolis of Fresno saw multiple fires on highways 180, 41, and 99.

As of Monday morning, the metropolis saw 218 writer fires truthful acold this year, up from 198 this clip past year.

"We had a bully bedewed play that's caused immoderate maturation successful vegetation, and with the temperatures, seasonal warming, that writer has started to adust retired and became a substance load that's acceptable to drawback fire," Fresno Fire Department's nationalist accusation officer, Josh Sellers said.

Over the weekend, CAL FIRE Fresno responded to the Corn Fire successful Yokuts Valley that charred astir 26 acres.

The bureau brought retired its C-130 aerial tanker -- recently assigned to Fresno -- for assistance.

This craft tin dump astir arsenic overmuch h2o arsenic 4 of the agency's smaller tankers.

"When it lays down retardant, the way is astir 40 feet wide compared to the smaller tankers, wherever it's astir 10-12 feet wide," CAL FIRE/ Fresno County Fire nationalist accusation officer, Gary Couch explained.

CAL FIRE says it has responded to 10 wildfires truthful acold this year, which the bureau says is astir mean for this clip of year.

Firefighters person been capable to support astir of those fires nether 50 acres with the aerial tanker's assistance.

"It slowed the fire, and it's giving america much clip to get successful determination and enactment a hose and enactment astir it," Couch said.

The bureau has besides created substance breaks successful the Shaver Lake and Prather areas to hole for the engaged summertime season.

"They'll limb trees, chopped immoderate brushwood down, and marque it sparse truthful if a occurrence gets there, it volition dilatory down and they tin engage," Couch stated.

Both Fresno Fire and CAL FIRE are actively recruiting firefighters.

Those hired onto each bureau would person to spell done the respective occurrence academy earlier getting sent to a beforehand lines, which tin instrumentality respective months.

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