A fast-moving grass fire near Highway 41 in Fresno threatened several warehouses on Saturday before firefighters quickly stopped the flames from spreading further.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out around 2:15 p.m. near Highway 41 and O Street on the north side of the freeway.<\/p>\n
Fresno Fire spokesperson Josh Sellers said strong winds pushed the flames across the highway and into a grass field between roadways and warehouses located between O Street and Santa Fe Avenue.<\/p>\n
The fire threatened at least eight warehouses in the area.<\/p>\n
Sellers said two warehouse units sustained minor damage, but firefighters were able to quickly contain and extinguish the flames before the buildings became heavily involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cCrews did a fantastic job,\u201d Sellers said. \u201cThey basically saved every warehouse that was threatened.\u201d<\/p>\n
About 70 firefighters responded to the scene.<\/p>\n
During the firefight, railroad traffic in the area was temporarily shut down as crews worked on both sides of the tracks to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n
Because of the large response and another incident elsewhere in the city, Fresno Fire temporarily suspended responses to medical aid calls.<\/p>\n
Sellers said normal emergency-response operations have since resumed.<\/p>\n
Smoke from the fire created visibility concerns for drivers along Highway 41.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnytime you have smoke laying down and obstructing drivers\u2019 views, that\u2019s always a hazard,\u201d Sellers said. \u201cWe always tell everyone to slow down and move over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winds were blowing from the northwest to the southeast, pushing smoke and embers toward the Butler Avenue area, according to Sellers.<\/p>\n
Fire crews were expected to remain at the scene for several hours.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fast-moving grass fire near Highway 41 in Fresno threatened several warehouses on Saturday before firefighters quickly stopped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4853,112,3423,114,113,7939,35669],"class_list":["post-319731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-firefighters","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-fire","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-highway-41","tag-josh-sellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}