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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Windshield wipers were hard astatine enactment connected Saturday day arsenic the rainfall came down. But truthful were Fresno City crews.
Crews were chopping down this histrion that fell into immoderate powerlines connected Eighth and Lyell Street successful Southeast Fresno.
The branches were besides leaning connected apical of the home's roof.
"We haven't seen a ton of outages, but we person seen some," PG&E spokesperson Jeff Smith said. "We've seen downed wires, we've seen immoderate downed powerlines, and that's a effect of immoderate the beauteous important winds we saw earlier successful the afternoon."
PG&E says astir of the outages from Saturday's soaker were wrong the metropolis of Fresno.
During progressive upwind similar this, PG&E says it keeps an particularly adjacent oculus connected the agrarian areas.
"Particularly successful those upland areas, similar I mentioned, are entree issues," Smith said. "If you've got trees oregon shrubbery oregon things similar that that are impeding our crews' quality to entree those areas, that's ever a concern."
Smith says the caller sunshine gave crews a accidental to remainder and prep their instrumentality for the rainfall and wind.
Clovis nonmigratory Brad Ringness was cutting up this histrion that fell into the mediate of the sidewalk close adjacent to the Handy Stop store.
"I figured that this was a existent emergency, I didn't privation anybody to get hurt. one had a saw and figured wherefore not chopped it up," Rigness said.
Ringness walks astir this vicinity often and erstwhile helium saw the fallen tree, helium jumped close into action.
"I knew I could bash it fast, truthful I conscionable decided not to permission it to idiosyncratic else," Rigness said. "I deliberation we each request to instrumentality much enactment and assistance retired successful situations similar this."
The rainfall besides impacting galore play events.
The Fresno Grizzlies crippled acceptable for Saturday evening had to beryllium canceled owed to the rain.
"It's precise disappointing erstwhile you suffer immoderate game, particularly a Saturday nighttime and particularly this Saturday nighttime wherever we had a batch of pre-sold tickets and a batch of folks coming out, small leagues and a batch of large groups.," Franks said
The Grizzlies accidental Saturday's crippled is going to beryllium made up Sunday arsenic portion of a doubleheader.
If fans can't marque it out, they tin besides speech their tickets for immoderate different crippled during the 2024 season.
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