Folsom Crews Perform Prescribed Burns In Wet Weather For Future Fire Prevention

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FOLSOM (CBS13) – In the past week, Northern California has seen much-needed rainfall successful the Sacramento Valley and snowfall successful the Sierra.

The bedewed upwind is welcomed aft a adust summer, but however overmuch volition it help? CBS13 visited Folsom to talk with occurrence crews and residents astir existent conditions.

The Folsom zoo, constabulary department, metropolis hall, and the Johnny Cash way are each close adjacent to each other.

“I usually travel to locomotion my canine oregon sometimes to the zoo oregon sometimes my girl has a shot lucifer here,” said Dave Ganguli, who’s lived successful the Folsom country for years. “It’s large for radical surviving successful Folsom.”

But the country is surrounded by adust brushwood and trees the Folsom Fire Department says are ripe for burning.

“Once a occurrence gets going, it tin bash a lot,” said Folsom Fire Battalion Chief Matt McGee.

So with rainfall successful the forecast Monday, crews burned it to support the country from a aboriginal fire.

“It’s truly bully to get this each cleaned up,” McGee said.

In the past week, the Folsom country has accumulated 7 inches of rain, helping occurrence crews to power prescribed burns.

“Any moisture we get is decidedly a bully thing,” McGee said.

But is it capable to person an interaction connected the drought and aboriginal adust conditions? According to leaders with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s drought task force, parts of California would person to spot 200% of emblematic precipitation implicit the adjacent 3 months to amended the statewide drought – and contempt caller bedewed weather. Officials successful Folsom bash accidental they expect a adust wintertime ahead.

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“It’s an denotation that wintertime is coming, but we’re not retired of occurrence play yet,” McGee said. “We expect we volition person important occurrence information done the wintertime now.”