Wind a concern as crews battle Garnet Fire in Fresno County on Labor Day

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's been much than a week since lightning sparked the Garnet Fire successful the Sierra National Forest.

So far, the wildfire has burned much than 21,000 acres and is 12 percent contained.

Officials accidental astir 29 antithetic agencies from each implicit the state person responded, totaling much than 1,400 unit helping conflict the blaze, including 2 firefighters from New York City.

Officials accidental crews are attacking the blaze from the crushed and entity to incorporate the flames, adding that the occurrence is aggravated but luckily not increasing rapidly.

They are sharing a caller country of absorption arsenic they enactment to halt the occurrence from crossing the Kings River.

Officials accidental upwind is simply a interest for the adjacent 24 hours arsenic lukewarm and adust conditions are expected to instrumentality around, but thunderstorms are predicted to participate the occurrence country Monday nighttime and into Tuesday.

As the combat continues, there's a campy for crews acceptable up northbound of the occurrence incident.

They're getting resources taken into the campy truthful that firefighters tin absorption connected getting amended containment of this blaze, arsenic good arsenic ticker the 5 different smaller fires successful the area.

The basal campy for this incidental is acceptable up astatine Avocado Lake and should stay determination until this occurrence is contained.

Officials privation to pass radical of the crews going successful and retired of the country during the Labor Day holiday.