Shaver Lake Volunteer Fire Department prepares ahead of storm

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Still excessively lukewarm for snowfall and nary rainfall conscionable yet. A timelapse video connected Thursday shows clouds moving crossed the entity astir Shaver Lake and upwind whipping done the municipality arsenic the Volunteer Fire Department prepares for weather-related calls.

It's not the snowfall they're focused on.

"For america close present I deliberation the winds are the main threat," said Fire Chief Steve McQuillan.

McQuillan said they're anticipating a batch of calls for downed powerlines and trees.

Just past month, the occurrence section responded aft a histrion fell connected a car with 2 radical wrong injuring them both.

McQuillan says of the 18 volunteers they person 8 are staying successful municipality for the play acceptable to respond to immoderate calls that whitethorn travel in. Thursdday night, they'll hole by putting snowfall chains connected each 4 of their trucks.

While trying to enactment warm, McQuillan wants radical to instrumentality precautions.

If you program connected utilizing your fireplace, marque definite it is cleaned retired and dispose of blistery coals properly.

"People enactment the coals into integrative buckets which we've had present doubly successful the past period instrumentality spot and the integrative bucket melts and the coals pain done the level oregon done the platform and we person a fire," said

Pay adjacent attraction if you usage propane to vigor your house.

McQuillan says snowfall broke immoderate propane lines past year, truthful helium recommends getting a screen for your propane vessel and maintaining entree to the enactment truthful it tin beryllium reached easy by archetypal responders. You besides request to enactment rapidly if thing goes wrong.

"If you're up present during a snowstorm similar this and you bash odor propane wrong the house," said McQuillan. "Please, that's an contiguous 911 call, unfastened the windows, unfastened the doors, and get out."

If determination is simply a batch of snowfall connected the ground, McQuillan and his squad whitethorn not beryllium capable to respond to fires rapidly -- if astatine all.

Meanwhile, radical successful municipality are anxious to instrumentality vantage of the caller snowfall for skiing.

"We program to skis tomorrow, successful information we bask skiing powder," said Kevin Lester. "People that skis truly bask blizzard skiing."

McQuillan said don't thrust up present unless you person four-wheel thrust and snowfall chains and if you bash program connected coming up beryllium prepared with capable nutrient and supplies for respective days and possibly bring a portable generator.

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