Firefighters Battling Caldor Fire Looking Forward To Wet Weather

FRESH POND (CBS13) – The Caldor Fire is astir 80 percent contained but it’s been an uphill conflict for crews facing precocious temperatures and beardown winds implicit the past respective weeks.

However, alleviation is successful the forecast and occurrence crews are taking advantage.

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“We’re not relaxing astatine all,” said Robert Szczepanek with the Ventura County Fire Department. He’s portion of the Caldor Fire Incident Management Team.

After a blistery fewer weeks, rainfall and moisture connected the skyline are welcomed upwind for Caldor Fire crews.

“We volition instrumentality vantage of the humidity and the rain,” said Szczepanek. The forgiving conditions won’t past long. It’s a contention against clip to boost containment.

“We’re expecting humidity contiguous to determination up into the 70%-90% range,” said Shawn Palmquist, a Caldor Fire meteorologist.

We asked Palmquist however precocious humidity volition assistance with the firefight.

“It volition assistance mean the occurrence behaviour truthful they tin get retired connected the line…and suppress things if necessary,” helium said.

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Palmquist explains the substance of heat, rain, and possibly adjacent snowfall isn’t uncommon for fall.

“Can’t regularisation retired a fewer snowflakes mixing in. Especially this clip of twelvemonth you spot truly large swings successful weather,” helium said.

The unpredictable upwind could proceed to marque occurrence play unpredictable arsenic wildfires pain crossed California.

“When they each hap astatine erstwhile that benignant of hurts us,” said Szczepanek, who explains that 100% containment connected the Caldor Fire volition mean much resources for the state.

“Once we get a bully grip of this occurrence past we commencement releasing equipment,” helium said.

It’s a welcomed show for evacuees who are looking guardant to their towns returning to normal.

“I’m hoping and praying. It would perfectly beryllium a blessing,” said Fresh Pond nonmigratory Ashlee Rogers.

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We asked experts astir the imaginable for mudslides. They said that with plentifulness of burned areas and rainfall successful the forecast, it’s a anticipation but improbable arsenic the rainfall is not expected to past for  long.

Laura Haefeli