{"id":3719,"date":"2025-10-14T11:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/3719\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T11:11:09","slug":"rain-in-foothills-stirs-concerns-over-garnet-fire-burn-scar-cbs47-and-ksee24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/3719\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain in foothills stirs concerns over Garnet Fire burn scar\u00a0 | CBS47 and KSEE24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 The burn scar left behind from the Garnet Fire is just one of many concerns for Fresno County officials as the season\u2019s first rain system moves into Central California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re worried about mudslides and debris flow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have our equipment on standby. We\u2019ve got chainsaws gassed up and sharpened and ready to go. So whatever it brings, we\u2019re ready,\u201d Emergency Manager Terri Mejorado said. She said they\u2019ve been tracking the forecast and working on getting the right crews in the right places, from the valley floor to the Sierra.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While crews are focused on the 60,000-acre Garnet Fire burn scar, they\u2019re most concerned about the areas also hit by the 2024 Basin Fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Garnet Fire, a lot of it was in remote areas where there were no homes, there were no cabins, there was no infrastructure. It was just forests. So, if we were to get a mudslide there, yes, it is going to cause more damage. More trees will come down. It\u2019ll move some boulders and rocks. But probably the most area that we would be concerned at is around the Basin Fire. So that would be the PG&amp;E hydroelectric plant and, you know, they have homes up there,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the valley floor, Mejorado said they\u2019re always trying to make improvements to ease flooding. The county upgraded some drainage ditches just outside of Clovis on Bullard Avenue after repeated flooding in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/news\/local-news\/fresno-county-flooding-preparations\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tCommunity members, local agencies prepare for Central Valley\u2019s incoming storm\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresno County supervisor Nathan Magsig represents much of eastern Fresno County. He said public works crews are stationed and ready to get dispatched in case any trees or large rocks fall on the roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStay on the road, don\u2019t be walking out trying to look at the burn scar area where the Garnet Fire has burned. Make wise decisions,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 The burn scar left behind from the Garnet Fire is just one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[4555,706,644,112,622,114,113,625,4556,62,61,3831,4557],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-basin-fire","tag-central-california","tag-flooding","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-garnet-fire","tag-mudslide","tag-rain","tag-storm","tag-supervisor-nathan-magsig","tag-terri-mejorado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","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=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}