Sandbags offered to residents to help prepare for wet weather

FRESNO COUNTY (KFSN) -- Help is on the way to help residents keep their properties safe during these rainy days.

The city of Clovis is allowing residents to fill sandbags at the city corporation yard and there are several other yards throughout Fresno County to pick up their bags.

Residents in Merced also have several filling locations throughout the city and county.

This service is being offered 24 hours a day to people living in unincorporated areas of Fresno County.

The work yards are located below. Residents need to take their own shovels to do the filling:

- Biola, Area 4 Road Yard, 12855 W. G St.

- Fresno-Clovis area, Area 7 Road Yard, 9400 N. Matus Ave.

- Sanger, Area 8 Road Yard, 9525 E. Olive Ave.

- Clovis residents can fill sandbags at the City Corporation Yard, 155 N. Sunnyside Ave.