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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - It’s been 1 week since the Garnet Fire erupted successful the Sierra National Forest.
“We privation to incorporate the fire. We privation to halt its progression. We privation to wrapper this happening up and get everybody backmost to immoderate mean looks like,” Fresno Fire Marshall Jay Tracy said.
It’s each hands connected platform to incorporate the Garnet Fire.
“18,748 acres. We bash person 8% containment. The occurrence was caused by lightning strikes, and astatine this constituent it is inactive an progressive and dilatory increasing occurrence that’s being fought by 1,444 unit that we person connected scene,” Tracy said.
Fresno Fire’s Deputy Fire Marshall is among the radical moving connected the wildfire. His past wildfire deployment was successful January for the Eaton Fire successful Southern California.
“I deliberation that fig of 1,444 is typical of astatine slightest 29 agencies. All passim the authorities and each passim the US arsenic well. We person 15 craft that are assigned to, are disposable to the incident,” Tracy said.
Tracy said implicit the past mates of days, crews person been moving overtime to support the occurrence earlier the coming week.
“In summation to the rugged terrain and conscionable access, there’s not a batch of roads successful the area. So a batch of the enactment that’s being done is being done with aircraft. As we travel into Tuesday and Wednesday, the meteorologists are anticipating immoderate upwind to travel in,” Tracy said.
Gusty winds and thunderstorms are the main concerns arsenic the Garnet occurrence is surrounded by different smaller fires officials accidental were caused by lightning.
“You tin lone benignant of program for truthful much. The bully happening is we bash person a batch of unit assigned to this incident,” Tracy said.
Although the occurrence is successful a agrarian country and nary injuries person been reported yet, occurrence crews besides privation to bounds harm to the environment.
“This is beauteous distant state backmost here. So not a batch of structures are involved. But yeah, we inactive privation to instrumentality attraction of it, sphere our wood arsenic champion we can,” Tracy said.
This weekend, a basal of operations was set up astatine Avocado Lake for the 29 agencies to enactment retired of.
“This truly ramped up yesterday arsenic acold arsenic gathering the basal present and getting, you know, get immoderate much folks to benignant of instrumentality implicit and, you know, acceptable plans,” Tracy said.
In 1 week, the Garnet Fire grew into the sixth-largest occurrence successful California this year.
