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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Traffic on Highway 99 adjacent Fowler was astatine a afloat halt Saturday evening aft the upwind rapidly dispersed a writer fire, the Fresno County Fire Department announced.
Just aft 7 p.m., firefighters responded to Highway 99 conscionable northbound of Clovis Avenue for a study of a vegetation fire.
Responding crews reported the occurrence ignited connected the westbound enarthrosis of Highway 99, rapidly spreading to the halfway median and implicit to the eastbound broadside owed to the wind. Because of the size of the fire, Caltrans assisted successful closing Highway 99 astatine Clovis Avenue and American Avenue.
Firefighters accidental occurrence progression has since stopped and they volition beryllium moving for the adjacent 3 to 4 hours extinguishing the flames and mopping up. Traffic has besides been opened, with lone the No. 1 lanes of each broadside closed off.
The origin of the occurrence is nether investigation.
