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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was closed Friday and hundreds of people ordered evacuated nearby as a wildfire burning through dense forest became the latest in recent years to threaten the world's largest trees. A team was being sen
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The largest grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was closed Friday and hundreds of people ordered evacuated nearby as a wildfire burning through dense forest became the latest in recent years to threaten the world’s largest trees.
An out-of-control wildfire is threatening a grove of giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park and it's prompted evacuations orders for hundreds of people
More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened but there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, such as the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.
A team was being sent to the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite to wrap some of the massive trunks in fire-resistant foil to protect them as the blaze burned out of control.