More than 6,000 residents were forced to flee from California's biggest blaze of the year.
The Associated PressWildfire rips through forest near California's Yosemite National ParkAn uncontrolled wildfire near California's Yosemite National Park, in Mariposa County, is tearing through bone-dry forest, challenging firefighters and forcing thousands of people to flee.
Some 2,000 firefighters battled the Oak Fire, along with aircraft and bulldozers, facing tough conditions that includes steep terrain, sweltering temperatures and low humidity, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire. Crews on the ground protected homes as air tankers dropped retardant on 15-metre flames racing along ridgetops east of the tiny community of Jerseydale.
By Sunday the blaze had consumed more than 56 square kilometres of forest land, with no containment, Cal Fire said. The cause was under investigation.Evacuations were in place for over 6,000 people living across a several-kilometre span of the sparsely populated area in the Sierra Nevada foothills, though a handful of residents defied the orders and stayed behind, said Adrienne Freeman with the U.S. Forest Service.
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