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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Over 6,000 firefighters are retired battling the Park Fire and arsenic advancement is being made, crews are faced with obstacles on the way.
Jesse Gomez, nationalist accusation serviceman for Selma Fire says the fire's determination is forcing crews to usage aircrafts to enactment retired the flames.
"Where the occurrence is presently burning is successful much of a distant country wherever you cannot entree with the vehicle. You could, it astir apt takes respective hours, but it's much time-effective for the firefighters to beryllium flown in," Gomez said.
Gomez says the upwind conditions person not been successful their favor.
"I would deliberation it'd beryllium a small spot much cooler up here, but it is not. It's virtually similar you're successful Fresno, the Fresno heat. So, I mean that's wherefore it's important that we person arsenic galore firefighters present to assistance prosecute successful putting retired the blistery spots and getting successful much deeper and interior of the fire," Gomez said.
Local occurrence crews from Selma Fire, Fresno Fire, North Central Fire District, Kings County and Clovis Fire are each warring the Park Fire successful bluish California.
Mikal Montgomery with the National Weather Service says determination whitethorn beryllium bully quality up for firefighters.
"We whitethorn person a disturbance propulsion done implicit Northern California, which whitethorn assistance to bring cooler temperatures by this weekend. So that's thing that we're looking at," Montgomery said.
He besides says with this week's excessive vigor warning, to instrumentality precautionary measures to debar a fire.
"If you smoke, you know, effort not to propulsion those retired into unfastened fields oregon into immoderate it is, oregon into brush, conscionable due to the fact that that could ignite fires beauteous easy successful this benignant of heat. And we person comparative humidity that is beauteous low. So, similar beneath 20%. So, it's conscionable dry, blistery aerial that you don't privation to messiness with," Montgomery said.
Fresno Fire is sending 4 further firefighters Monday morning, according to officials.
As of Sunday evening, the Park Fire is implicit 400,000 acres large, encompassing 4 counties; Butte, Plumas, Shasta, and Tehama.
