DISASTERS: FIRE : UNITED STATES: STATES: CALIFORNIA : ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Raging Yosemite Fire Spreads Fear, Frustration

[David P. Dillard]

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DISASTERS: FIRE :

UNITED STATES: STATES: CALIFORNIA :

ENVIRONMENT: GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE:

Raging Yosemite Fire Spreads Fear, Frustration

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Raging Yosemite Fire Spreads Fear, Frustration

The Rim fire in and around Yosemite becomes one of the largest in recent
state history, threatening homes and San Francisco's power supply.

By Diana Marcum, Stephen Ceasar and Kurt Streeter

Los Angeles Times

August 24, 2013, 8:56 p.m.

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0825-
yosemite-fire-20130825,0,4270055.story

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GROVELAND One of the largest wildfires in recent California history raged
out of control in and around Yosemite National Park on Saturday, charring
more than 125,000 acres, briefly threatening San Francisco's power supply
and frustrating firefighters' efforts to contain it.

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The fast-moving blaze marched powerfully through pristine wilderness all
of last week, doubling in size since Thursday, forcing evacuations,
shutting down the main highway to the famed national park, and damaging
the Hetch Hetchy water and power system.

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More than 2,600 firefighters battled the blaze on Saturday. Although they
were assisted by trench-digging bulldozers and water-dropping aircraft,
their efforts had little effect. The Rim fire, which began eight days ago
in a remote canyon of the Stanislaus National Forest, was just 5%
contained.

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"This fire is burning unlike anything we've seen in this area
historically," said Ashley Taylor, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman.

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More than 1,800 firefighters were sent to Tuolumne City at the
northwestern edge of the fire to protect the community's 1,600 homes. "Our
priority is Tuolumne right now. It's in the line of fire," said another
fire official.

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Aside from the hot, dry weather and the rugged and hard-to-reach terrain,
another difficulty was the blaze's tendency to burn the tops of trees,
creating a "crown fire" with long, intense flames that skip across
forested land faster than a wildfire that creeps along near the ground.

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The blaze continued to threaten small communities throughout the area,
some of which had been abandoned by residents, tourists and business
owners who fled after looking skyward and seeing gray plumes of smoke or
columns of flame rising from nearby mountain ranges. Tuolumne City and
Ponderosa Hills, home to about 2,000 people, were under voluntary
evacuation orders. Parts of Groveland were evacuated Friday.

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