hundreds of The firefighters were racing against Monday time to prevent a massive fire from ravaging area of Rare giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park, California.
Washburn fire in Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia, was first mentioned on July 7 doubled in size over weekend to 2,340 acres (946 ha), according to a report on the park.
Yosemite fire The management service said 545 firefighters were battling the blaze, including “proactive protection” of the orchard – the largest sequoia orchard. in Yosemite, with over 500 mature trees.
More reinforcements are scheduled for Monday as the fire continues out of control with Increasingly hot and dry weather Outlook, Nancy Philip, spokesperson for Yosemite Fire Information, in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP).
‘It’s still showing up zero percent Philip said.
“We are doing everything we can to put this together fire out”including publishing air Tankers and helicopters along with Earth crews, hey added.
In a sequoia orchard, crews removed leaves, sticks, and quick-burning twigs as well as flooded the ground and trees.
Yosemite fire Twitter service screenshots of emergency sprinklers set up Specially for putting down ‘Grizzly Giant’ in the grove – the most famous sequoia in which garden is secondBiggest tree in Yosemite at 63 meters (209 feet), and one of the biggest.
Philip said reply team She was “feel confident that we set up the trees for as much protection what we can” with Last efforts, with the help of the previously described burns.
long season
Giant sequoias are the world’s largest trees by size. Their relative, the California redwood, can grow taller — well over 100 meters – but not across.
both types of Trees adapt to fires, with Thick bark protects them from it heat.
In their lives that are measured in in thousands of years, and they usually withstand many fires, and heat This helps their cones to open up, allowing the seeds to spread.
but longer and hotter and more Aggressive fires can be damaging, and sometimes irreparable, and California has recently experienced several severe fires. fire seasons in Row.
Scientists say global Warming, driven chiefly by humanity, by unchecked burning of Fossil fuels, is the extreme weather events more likely that.
else yearca and other parts of The western United States was destroyed by a huge, hot and fast-moving Forest fires, driven by years of Drought and climate warming.
two of those fires in California burned 3,600 giant sequoias, each more from 120 cm (4 feet) in Diameter.
The year before 10000 of The giants – up to 14% of The world’s total – Die in else fire.
With droughts and scorching temperatures, fire heads warned of taller and longer fire seasons.
More than 3,500 fires have been reported already by California Firefighters in 2022 Burn an estimated 22,900 acres.
“its just just the start of July, Philip said, echoing the concern about lengthening seasons.
“All year We say ‘wonderful, this is going to be a long season’ and seasons will last longer.”
hundreds of The firefighters were racing against Monday time to prevent a massive fire from ravaging area of Rare giant sequoia trees in Yosemite National Park, California.
Washburn fire in Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia, was first mentioned on July 7 doubled in size over weekend to 2,340 acres (946 ha), according to a report on the park.
Yosemite fire The management service said 545 firefighters were battling the blaze, including “proactive protection” of the orchard – the largest sequoia orchard. in Yosemite, with over 500 mature trees.
More reinforcements are scheduled for Monday as the fire continues out of control with Increasingly hot and dry weather Outlook, Nancy Philip, spokesperson for Yosemite Fire Information, in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP).
‘It’s still showing up zero percent Philip said.
“We are doing everything we can to put this together fire out”including publishing air Tankers and helicopters along with Earth crews, hey added.
In a sequoia orchard, crews removed leaves, sticks, and quick-burning twigs as well as flooded the ground and trees.
Yosemite fire Twitter service screenshots of emergency sprinklers set up Specially for putting down ‘Grizzly Giant’ in the grove – the most famous sequoia in which garden is secondBiggest tree in Yosemite at 63 meters (209 feet), and one of the biggest.
Philip said reply team She was “feel confident that we set up the trees for as much protection what we can” with Last efforts, with the help of the previously described burns.
long season
Giant sequoias are the world’s largest trees by size. Their relative, the California redwood, can grow taller — well over 100 meters – but not across.
both types of Trees adapt to fires, with Thick bark protects them from it heat.
In their lives that are measured in in thousands of years, and they usually withstand many fires, and heat This helps their cones to open up, allowing the seeds to spread.
but longer and hotter and more Aggressive fires can be damaging, and sometimes irreparable, and California has recently experienced several severe fires. fire seasons in Row.
Scientists say global Warming, driven chiefly by humanity, by unchecked burning of Fossil fuels, is the extreme weather events more likely that.
else yearca and other parts of The western United States was destroyed by a huge, hot and fast-moving Forest fires, driven by years of Drought and climate warming.
two of those fires in California burned 3,600 giant sequoias, each more from 120 cm (4 feet) in Diameter.
The year before 10000 of The giants – up to 14% of The world’s total – Die in else fire.
With droughts and scorching temperatures, fire heads warned of taller and longer fire seasons.
More than 3,500 fires have been reported already by California Firefighters in 2022 Burn an estimated 22,900 acres.
“its just just the start of July, Philip said, echoing the concern about lengthening seasons.
“All year We say ‘wonderful, this is going to be a long season’ and seasons will last longer.”