No active flames following rainfall as Garnet Fire marks four weeks Sunday

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- After astir 4 weeks and 60,000 acres burned, the Garnet Fire is entering a caller stage.

"There isn't progressive occurrence flames, arsenic acold arsenic progressive occurrence behavior, due to the fact that we received truthful overmuch precipitation implicit the past mates of days and the summation successful comparative humidity," spokesperson Austin Gonzagowski told Action News.

The rainfall connected Thursday and Friday helped extinguish the flames.

"I deliberation astir firefighters, astir crews are precise confident," Gonzagowski said. "It's a morale booster."

Parts of the occurrence country received astir an inch of rain, prompting officials to halt the frontline effect owed to information concerns.

Firefighters returned Saturday for the archetypal clip since the weather.

"We person crews that are actively moving successful there, mopping up, ensuring that immoderate vigor that's recovered adjacent this country is wholly suppressed," Gonzagowski said.

Those crews are inactive moving to incorporate Garnet's northwest footprint.

"Until we're capable to get it 100 percent contained erstwhile we consciousness comfortable, they're going to proceed to person unit successful oregon astir the fire," Gonzagowski said.

He confirmed determination are inactive unsafe hotspots.

"There's going to beryllium dormant and down fuels that are going to proceed to smolder for weeks to come, if not months, until there's a bully coagulated rainfall oregon adjacent snow," Gonzagowski said.

On the eve of what volition beryllium 4 weeks of Garnet, Action News has learned that a caller incidental absorption squad from New York City is poised to instrumentality power connected Sunday.

It volition people a simplification successful the response...

"As resources (demobilize) from the assignment, they're being enactment backmost into the system, if you will, to beryllium disposable for different nationalist incidents," Gonzagowski said.