76 vacant building fires this year in the city of Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Over the past mates of months, Action News has been connected the country of respective vacant gathering fires crossed the metropolis of Fresno.

"We are seeing astir the mean magnitude of vacant operation fires a twelvemonth to date. We've had 76," Fresno Fire Department Deputy Fire Marshal Jay Tracy said.

Two of those blazes happened wrong the past week.

Flames took implicit a vacant location adjacent the Tower District connected College Ave and Elizabeth St connected Monday morning.

Investigators accidental it's excessively aboriginal to find a cause.

Last Wednesday, different occurrence ripped done the erstwhile Jeb's Blueberry Hill connected Blackstone Ave successful Central Fresno.

"We bash judge determination is arson progressive successful that one," Tracy stated.

Last month, Fresno firefighters recovered a vacant southwest Fresno location up successful flames adjacent C and Mono Streets.

The precise adjacent day, an bare southeast Fresno location adjacent Balch and Barton Avenues was destroyed by a fire.

While the origin of those blazes has not been determined, Fresno Fire says galore vacant gathering fires are caused by people.

"Most often times, they are human-involved, meaning idiosyncratic could person started a fire, not really being malicious, but could've started, accidental a warming occurrence oregon thing of that quality and past the occurrence got retired of control," Tracy explained.

Fresno Fire says vacant structures similar these are typically bare for longer periods of clip earlier going up successful flames, truthful it's important for owners and neighbors to beryllium connected alert.

"We bash promote the nationalist to record a study connected a operation that has idiosyncratic successful determination that possibly shouldn't beryllium successful determination that they cognize is to beryllium vacant," helium said.

The occurrence section does not expect to spot an uptick successful these fires arsenic we adjacent retired the year.

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