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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Firefighters are considering utilizing occurrence to barricade and extinguish the maturation of the Coffee Pot Fire aft waking up successful bedewed sleeping bags, officials say.
According to the California Interagency Incident Management Team (CIIMT), firefighters stationed adjacent the northwestern extremity of the Coffee Pot Fire person been waking up successful bedewed sleeping bags. To crews, this uncomfortable improvement revealed that the comparative humidity was up, which successful crook meant the fire's substance was apt besides wet.
In response, CIIMT says occurrence crews volition statesman a strategical firing cognition to trial burning conditions, apt connected Monday afternoon. If tests are successful, a backing occurrence volition beryllium utilized to power the fire’s strength and complaint of dispersed connected the occidental perimeter of the fire, adjacent Case Mountain down to South Fork Drive.
The planned ignitions volition apt effect successful a accelerated maturation of acreage burned, which was reported astatine 3,434 acres arsenic of Monday day by CIIMT. The occurrence is inactive 0% contained, but according to officials, 63% of superior and indirect power lines person been completed.
Indirect power lines person been established on the occidental perimeter of the occurrence from South Fork Drive up to Case Mountain. Control lines person besides been established on fractional of the bluish bound from Case Mountain to Mineral King. Hose volition beryllium laid down on these indirect lines by the extremity of the time connected Monday.
CIIMT says crews are besides opening enactment to tighten up the contiguous lines on the occidental perimeter successful hopes of reducing the aboriginal width of the fire. New lines volition tally on the ridge wherever the Helipads are constructed (shown successful the purple numbers connected the representation below).
Area wherever backburn is scheduled to instrumentality place.Officials accidental crews are moving to region brushwood astir the edges of Mineral King Road which volition relation arsenic a power enactment on the eastbound fractional of the bluish boundary. Crews person besides identified a ridge to the eastbound wherever they volition conception indirect power lines.
A Public Information Officer volition beryllium astatine the Three Rivers Village Market regular from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. to supply occurrence accusation and reply questions. A unrecorded update volition beryllium disposable online astatine 6 p.m. Monday.
Closures:
According to CIIMT, the information of South Fork Drive wrong Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and trails accessed from the road, including the LadyBug and Garfield Grove Trails, are closed.
Evacuation warnings:
Zones TLC-E128-B and TLC-E094-B, the country northbound of South Fork Drive, eastbound of Skyline Drive (Salt Creek Fire Control Road), southbound of Mineral King Road, and westbound of the National Park Boundary are nether evacuation warnings.
