Person welding fence leads to 2-acre fire in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Firefighters accidental a two-acre occurrence successful Fresno was sparked by idiosyncratic repairing a fence.

Fresno Fire says they responded to a writer occurrence connected the bluffs adjacent Palm and Nees Avenues successful Fresno astir 11:15 a.m. connected Friday.

Engine 13, the archetypal to get astatine the scene, reported that the occurrence was being driven by the upwind and rapidly moving up the hillside. Crews accidental the country adjacent the stream bottommost is afloat of adust grass, and had the imaginable to beryllium overmuch a overmuch larger incident.

Firefighters accidental they were capable to halt the fire's progression, keeping it to astir 2 acres. Crews established that the occurrence was caused by idiosyncratic welding a fence.