The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Editorial: Environmentalists don’t like prescribed fires. Irony is that may save Yosemite’s sequoias

The initial news accounts sounded so similar to past years that they were almost repetitive: A wildfire had broken out in a national park and was burning in heavy brush and forest thick with dead and downed trees.

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022

Firefighters attempt to save giant sequoias as Yosemite wildfire grows

From Friday to Monday, the blaze expanded from 250 acres to roughly 2,340 acres as over 500 firefighters have tried to contain it

The Guardian - US · Jul 11, 2022

Wildfire threatens Yosemite’s giant sequoias - the world’s largest trees

The growing wildfire in California threatens some of the tallest grove of giant sequoia trees in the Yosemite National Park.

Evening Standard · Jul 11, 2022

Grove of giant sequoias threatened by California wildfire

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

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2022

Wildfire rages near Yosemite grove of giant sequoia trees

A portion of Yosemite National Park has been closed as a wildfire rages near a grove of California’s famous giant sequoia trees

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022