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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The pain scar near down from the Garnet Fire is conscionable 1 of galore concerns for Fresno County officials arsenic the season's archetypal rainfall strategy moves into Central California.
They're disquieted astir mudslides and debris flow.
"We person our instrumentality connected standby. We've got chainsaws gassed up and sharpened and acceptable to go. So immoderate it brings, we're ready," Emergency Manager Terri Mejorado said. She said they've been tracking the forecast and moving connected getting the close crews successful the close places, from the vale level to the Sierra.
While crews are focused connected the 60,000-acre Garnet Fire pain scar, they're astir acrophobic astir the areas besides deed by the 2024 Basin Fire.
"With the Garnet Fire, a batch of it was successful distant areas wherever determination were nary homes, determination were nary cabins, determination was nary infrastructure. It was conscionable forests. So, if we were to get a mudslide there, yes, it is going to origin much damage. More trees volition travel down. It'll determination immoderate boulders and rocks. But astir apt the astir country that we would beryllium acrophobic astatine is astir the Basin Fire. So that would beryllium the PG&E hydroelectric works and, you know, they person homes up there," she said.
On the vale floor, Mejorado said they're ever trying to marque improvements to easiness flooding. The region upgraded immoderate drainage ditches conscionable extracurricular of Clovis connected Bullard Avenue aft repeated flooding successful 2023.
Fresno County supervisor Nathan Magsig represents overmuch of eastbound Fresno County. He said nationalist works crews are stationed and acceptable to get dispatched successful lawsuit immoderate trees oregon ample rocks autumn connected the roads.
"Stay connected the road, don't beryllium walking retired trying to look astatine the pain scar country wherever the Garnet Fire has burned. Make omniscient decisions," helium said.
