Multiple fires reported along Fresno highways 'within minutes of each other'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – At slightest fractional a twelve fires on Fresno highways were reported wrong minutes of each different connected Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol said.

The fires were each burning on the shoulders of highways 41, 99, and 180, including:

• Highway 41 adjacent Shaw Avenue
• Highway 180 adjacent Peach Avenue
• Highway 180 adjacent Temperance Avenue
• Highway 99 astatine Jensen Avenue (reported astatine 1:15 p.m.)

The southbound lanes of Highway 41 were temporarily reduced to 1 lane owed to 1 of the fires successful an embankment conscionable northbound of Ashlan Avenue. All fires person since been extinguished.

While officials person yet to corroborate the origin of the fires and whether oregon not they are related, according to maps, the shortest way to entree each these locations is implicit 20 miles.