Wildfire in Yosemite National Park in the US state of California grows more than double in size in a day as firefighters work in difficult terrain to protect the iconic sequoias trees
More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened in the famed Mariposa Grove but there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, including the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.
"Today it's actually the smokiest that we’ve seen," Nancy Phillipe, a Yosemite fire information spokesperson, said on Sunday. "Up until this morning, the park has not been in that unhealthy category, but that is where we are now." The cause of the Washburn Fire was under investigation. It had grown to nearly 6.7 square kilometres by Sunday morning, with no containment.
The giant sequoias, native in only about 70 groves spread along the western slope of California's Sierra Nevada range, were once considered impervious to flames but have become increasingly vulnerable as wildfires fueLled by a buildup of undergrowth from a century of fire suppression and drought exacerbated by climate crisis have become more intense and destructive.
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