Knp Complex Fire News Today

The Burn Area Emergency Response Team is made up experts from a variety of fields that work to evaluate and mitigate wildfire impacts on the enviroment and infr

Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “U.S. Park Service should allow public to visit, learn from partially burned Redwood Mountain Grove.”

The Generals Highway between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks reopened to the public Friday for the first time since a major wildfire last year.

The majestic area was closed to the public starting in mid-September as the KNP Complex...

Fire managers declared the KNP Complex 100% contained on Dec. 16 after significant precipitation in the Sierra Nevada.

The massive trees have adapted through the centuries to withstand low-intensity fire, and they even need flames to reproduce. But experts say the drought-stressed sequoias are increasingly no match for extreme blazes stoked by climate change and a buildup of bone-dry vegetation.

Having scorched almost 86,000 acres since it was caused by lightning on Sept. 9, the KNP Complex Fire — formed by the Colony and the Paradise Fires — is tearing through the northwestern sector of California’s Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada, the only region where these trees dwell. The complex is just 11% contained.

An official said that the KNP Complex Fire has burned into 15 of the Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks giant sequoia groves.

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Four people injured when a tree fell on them as they were...

THREE RIVERS, Calif. (AP) — Four people injured when a tree fell on them as they were...