Yosemite

WAWONA, Calif. (AP) - There was no containment Sunday of a destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park that has grown into one of California's biggest ...

Crews were able to to stop it from reaching an adjacent home. California Highway Patrol Officer Matthew Chance walks away from a car that crashed into a ditch while driving away from the Oak Fire in Mariposa County, Calif., on Friday, July 22, 2022. A firefighter removes a jacket from a car that crashed into a ditch while driving away from the Oak Fire in Mariposa County, Calif., on Friday, July 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Pacific Gas & Electric said on its website that more than 3,100 homes and businesses in the area had lost power as of Sunday and there was no indication when it would be restored. California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. Numerous roads were closed, including State Route 140 between Carstens Road and Allred Road - one of the main routes into Yosemite. The cause was under investigation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency because of the fire, and over 6000 people in the remote Sierra Nevada foothills were evacuated.

A handful of residents defied the orders and stayed behind, said Adrienne Freeman with the U.S. Forest Service. The 2,000 firefighters battling the blaze will encounter tough conditions including low humidity, high temperatures, and steep terrain, Cal Fire said. "We urge people to evacuate when told," Freeman said.

The Oak Fire has grown to 14281 acres with no containment as of Sunday morning.

The Washburn Fire was 79% contained Friday after burning about 7.5 square miles of forest. Pacific Gas & Electric said on its website that more than 2,600 homes and businesses in the area had lost power as of Friday afternoon and there was no indication when it would be restored. He was safely driven from the area and did not appear to suffer any injuries. The cause of the fire was under investigation. "The fire is moving quickly. California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years.

Washington – El incendio desatado cerca del parque estadounidense de Yosemite, tras el declarado a principios de mes, ha afectado ya a unas 4,800 hectáreas ...

El Servicio Forestal estadounidense consiguió alejar esas llamas de las icónicas secuoyas de Yosemite, pero el fuego se extendió hacia el este hasta acercarse a otro parque protegido, el Sierra National Forest. El fuego ha obligado a cerrar carreteras y se ha visto impulsado por las altas temperatura, condiciones de extrema seguía y el viento. Cerca de 6,000 personas han recibido orden de evacuación y el fuego amenaza a unas 2,000 estructuras, incluidos edificios residenciales y comerciales, según detalla el diario The Washington Post.

Las autoridades investigan el origen del fuego, el cual es el mayor incendio activo en California. Las llamas amenazan unas 2.000 estructuras, ...

El Servicio Forestal estadounidense consiguió alejar esas llamas de las icónicas secuoyas de Yosemite, pero el fuego se extendió hacia el este hasta acercarse a otro parque protegido, el Sierra National Forest. Un retweet del experesidente bastó para que el productor de televisión recordara la guerra contra el narco, a la cual culpa de ser la responsable de la actual violencia en el país El Servicio Forestal estadounidense consiguió alejar esas llamas de las icónicas secuoyas de Yosemite, pero el fuego se extendió hacia el este hasta acercarse a otro parque protegido, el Sierra National Forest. El gobernador de California, Gavin Newsom, ha declarado el estado de emergencia y ha pedido a las agencias estatales que movilicen a su personal y recursos para contenerlo. El fuego, cuyo origen se está investigando, se declaró el viernes por la tarde y ha afectado al condado de Mariposa, donde se han habilitado refugios para acoger a la población. El incendio desatado cerca del parque estadounidense de Yosemite, tras el declarado a principios de mes, ha afectado ya a unas 4.800 hectáreas y sigue sin estar controlado, según la última actualización del servicio de bomberos de California.

A destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park is burning out of control and has grown into one of California's biggest blazes of the year.

Pacific Gas & Electric said on its website that more than 3,100 homes and businesses in the area had lost power as of Sunday and there was no indication when it would be restored. California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. They fled as ash rained down and the fire descended a hill towards their property. Assessment teams were moving through mountain towns to check for additional damage, Fouts said. The Oak Fire was sparked as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze, the Washburn Fire, that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. The 7.5-square-mile (19-square-km) fire was nearly 80% contained after burning for two weeks and moving into the the Sierra National Forest. The cause was under investigation.

El Gobernador de California, en Estados Unidos, Gavin Newsom, decretó el estado de emergencia en el condado Mariposa ante un incendio forestal de rápida ...

El denominado Oak Fire, que comenzó el viernes 22 de julio al suroeste del parque, cerca de la ciudad de Midpines, creció al menos 48 kilómetros cuadrados. Además, ha quemado al menos 4.800 hectáreas de bosque. California ha experimentado incendios forestales cada vez más grandes y mortales en los últimos años. Los expertos explican que el cambio climático ha hecho que el oeste de Estados Unidos se haya tornado mucho más cálido y seco en los últimos 30 años. “El comportamiento de los incendios explosivos es un desafío para los bomberos”, aseguró el Departamento de Bomberos de California, en un comunicado, en el que también describió la actividad del fuego como “extrema con corridas frecuentes, incendios puntuales e incendios grupales”. Se ha convertido en uno de los incendios más grandes en el estado en lo corrido de este año, según informó el Departamento de Silvicultura y Protección contra Incendios de California. Más de 400 bomberos luchan contra las llamas cerca del Parque Nacional Yosemite, en el occidente de Estados Unidos, en medio de las difíciles condiciones de clima cálido y vegetación completamente seca.

El Oak Fire comenzó el viernes en la tarde al suroeste del Parque Nacional Yosemite, en California, cerca de la ciudad de Midpines en el condado de Mariposa ...

El estado de California ha atravesado incendios cada vez más grandes y mortales en los últimos años, pues el cambio climático ha propiciado que el oeste sea más seco y cálido en los últimos 30 años. Científicos aseguran que el clima será más extremo y los incendios forestales serán más impredecibles y frecuentes. El denominado Oak Fire comenzó el viernes en la tarde al suroeste del parque cerca de la ciudad de Midpines en el condado de Mariposa. Para el domingo en la mañana las llamas tuvieron un crecimiento de 14,281 acres sin contención, informó el Departamento de Silvicultura y Protección contra Incendios de California (Cal Fire). El Parque Nacional Yosemite ha estado presenciando uno de los incendios forestales más grandes del año en California, provocando órdenes de evacuación de más de 6,000 personas y generando cortes del servicio eléctrico en más de 2,000 negocios y hogares.

The explosive Oak Fire burning west of Yosemite in Mariposa County swelled to more than...

But it was expected to remain “aloft,” the agency said, with hazy skies visible and the smell of smoke possible. That fire, burning since July 7, presented a brief but dire threat to the giant sequoias nestled in the Mariposa Grove. For Monday, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued an air quality advisory, with smoke expected to drift into the region. The National Weather Service also forecast that heavy smoke from the fire would move into the Sierra foothills. Firefighters’ “greatest success” so far, he said, was along the fire’s western flank near Highway 140, where bulldozers and hand crews were able to dig long lines that they hoped would increase containment. “They’re in there protecting structures and bumping house to house, essentially, to protect everything that we can.”

Satellite images show a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire near California's Yosemite National Park that forced evacuations as it grew during a weekend ...

California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. Assessment teams were moving through mountain towns to check for additional damage, Fouts said. That fire was nearly 80% contained after burning for two weeks and moving into the the Sierra National Forest. Red icons on the map above represent fires, including the nearby Washburn Fire that threatened giant sequoias in the southern part of Yosemite National Park. The fire started Friday southwest of the park near the town of Midpines in Mariposa County. Officials described “explosive fire behavior” on Saturday as flames made runs through bone-dry vegetation caused by the worst drought in decades. The Oak Fire grew to more than 14,000 acres early Sunday. NASA satellite images show a large cloud of smoke over the park about 280 miles north of Los Angeles in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

We catch the free trolley from Mammoth Lakes back to the trailhead around noon and take the same trail from Horseshoe Lake back to the PCT. My backpack feels so ...

So we go out for cowboy camping again in the middle of the night and can get at least a couple of hours of sleep. First, we meander through some rocky areas where it’s easy to lose the trail, and then we hit the forest where I try to outrun the mosquitoes but it doesn’t work. So, I start hiking up and realize that it’s a long way up to the top. We soon continue to find a campsite a little bit further away and it gets dark until we find a spot up a little hill in the forest. We make it down to the valley floor and go get some food and drinks until we spend the evening at the North Pines backpacker campground. We follow the river and get to the Tuolumne Falls which is a beautiful waterfall. But I listened to music the entire day and I got my energy back after I got lost. After a few snowfields where it’s easy to get lost but not that hard to find back to the trail there are a few river crossings ahead and it’s not possible to keep your feet dry on these ones. We go slackpacking down to the falls and up again which is a relief for my back. We arrive at the campsite behind a bridge and mosquito repellent and a fire in the fire ring give me some peace. I ask all hikers passing by and after a while, I found out that they are just around the corner where I briefly walk back and meet up with them. We get to the junction to Red’s Meadows Resort and a little side trail leads to the beautiful Rainbow Falls, which actually has two rainbows.

(actualiza el número de hectáreas quemadas) Washington, 24 jul (EFE).- El incendio desatado cerca del parque estadounidense de Yosemite, tras el declarado a ...

� EFE 2022. A menos de 16 kilómetros al este de ese incendio, el desatado el pasado 7 de julio y bautizado como Washburn ha afectado ya a unas 2.000 hectáreas y está controlado en un 79 %, según los últimos datos. Washington, 24 jul (EFE).- El incendio desatado cerca del parque estadounidense de Yosemite, tras el declarado a principios de mes, ha afectado ya a unas 6.300 hectáreas y sigue sin estar controlado, según la última actualización del servicio de bomberos de California, que data de este domingo por la tarde.

A destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park burned out of control through tinder-dry forest on Sunday and had grown into one of California's biggest ...

Pacific Gas & Electric said on its website that more than 3,100 homes and businesses in the area had lost power as of Sunday and there was no indication when it would be restored. California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. They fled as ash rained down and the fire descended a hill towards their property. Assessment teams were moving through mountain towns to check for additional damage, Fouts said. The Oak Fire was sparked as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze, the Washburn Fire, that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. The 19-square-kilometre fire was nearly 80 per cent contained after burning for two weeks and moving into the the Sierra National Forest. "We urge people to evacuate when told," she said.

JERSEYDALE, Calif. — A destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park that was burning out of control Sunday through tinder-dry forest land has grown into ...

Pacific Gas & Electric said on its website that more than 3,100 homes and businesses in the area had lost power as of Sunday and there was no indication when it would be restored. California has experienced increasingly larger and deadlier wildfires in recent years as climate change has made the West much warmer and drier over the past 30 years. Assessment teams were moving through mountain towns to check for additional damage, Fouts said. The Oak Fire was sparked as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze, the Washburn Fire, that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. The 7.5-square-mile (19-square-km) fire was nearly 80% contained after burning for two weeks and moving into the the Sierra National Forest. The cause was under investigation. Evacuations were in place for over 6,000 people living across a several-mile span of the sparsely populated area in the Sierra Nevada foothills, though a handful of residents defied the orders and stayed behind, said Adrienne Freeman with the U.S. Forest Service.

Unos 2.000 bomberos están combatiendo las llamas, asistidos por avionetas y bulldozers y bajo condiciones difíciles como terrenos empinados y altas temperaturas ...

Un incendio cerca del Parque Nacional Yosemite se ha convertido en uno de los mayores de California este año y ha obligado a miles de residentes a evacuar sus viviendas. Se emitieron órdenes de evacuación para unas 6.000 personas en la zona de Sierra Nevada. Arde incendio cerca de parque Yosemite en California

Published: Jul. 24, 2022, 5:37 p.m.. California wildfire. A firefighter extinguishes flames as the Oak Fire crosses Darrah Rd. in Mariposa ...