Merced County Fair officials working to keep crowds safe amid high temperatures

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The just is successful municipality astatine the Merced County Fairgrounds, and truthful is the heat.

Merced County Fairgrounds CEO Teresa Burrola says the just utilized to beryllium held successful July, but it's since moved to the opening of June.

She explains adjacent though temperatures are hot, determination are inactive plentifulness of chill things to research astatine the fair.

"We person ways to chill off. We person shaved ice. We person chill buildings to beryllium in," explained Burrola.

In addition, Merced College has acceptable up a abstraction for fair-goers to support chill passim the day.

Burrola adds concerts statesman precocious successful the time to let radical to bask a amusement successful a cooler setting.

But radical aren't the lone ones trying to support cool.

"Just similar the kids, and conscionable similar you and I, erstwhile we spell to a caller place, it's a small stressful. So, we effort and marque definite that we are helping our carnal partners truthful that they enactment arsenic calm and hydrated arsenic they can," said Terri O' Leary- Collins, livestock superintendent.

Future Farmers of America subordinate Jenna Freitas says it's 1 of the hottest summers she's competed in.

"We gotta marque definite these pigs enactment cool," said Freitas.

But she's ensuring her miss Millie gets a batch of emotion and attraction during this vigor wave.

"I instrumentality them to the washer, astir apt each hour, hr and a half, conscionable to support them cool. I person a cooler astatine my pin, and each carnal has 1 fan. They bash thin to get hot, So I usage a sprayer with crystal h2o successful it, and I marque definite they person entree to h2o each the time," said Jenna Freitas with Future Farmers of America.

The just opens astatine 5 p.m. during the week and 3 p.m. connected the weekend.

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