Over 100 acres burn in Rolling Hills near highway

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Crews are actively moving to incorporate a occurrence implicit 100 acres on Highway 41 successful Madera County, northbound of Fresno Sunday evening, Cal Fire announced.

Firefighters accidental conscionable earlier 5 p.m. they responded to a occurrence that ignited on Highway 41 adjacent Avenue 11 successful Rolling Hills.

Upon arrival, crews reported an acre of writer connected occurrence however, the upwind picked up and rapidly moved the occurrence wrong minutes from a mean to a unsafe complaint of dispersed toward the San Joaquin River. Additional resources were called to assist.

Cal Fire says astatine 1 point, an abandoned operation was threatened but the occurrence has since been mitigated and remains undamaged.

Firefighters study guardant advancement of the occurrence has been stopped, leaving them astatine astir 100 to 120 acres with 5% containment. A driblet successful upwind allowed crews to instrumentality vantage and moderately dilatory the complaint of spread.

Cal Fire says the sheriff's bureau was successful the country assisting with evacuation orders and advisories, but those volition soon beryllium lifted. Cattle were successful the country crossed the roadworthy from the occurrence but were unaffected.

The origin of the occurrence is actively nether investigation.