Fire officials said at least 21 homes and 34 other structures have been destroyed.
Firefighters continued to make progress Monday on containing the Oak Fire burning near Yosemite National Park, limiting its growth to just a few hundred acres, CBS San Francisco reports.
As of Monday evening local time, Cal Fire said the wildfire was 16% contained and had burned 17,241 acres, only 450 more acres than reported Monday morning. It's California's largest wildfire this year. Helicopters dropped 300,000 gallons of water on the flames as crews continued to strengthen control lines and extinguish hot spots along the perimeter of the fire as it moved in northeast. Thousands of residents remain under evacuation orders, though some of those orders were reduced to advisories.
Cal Fire officials were also projecting that the fire would be contained by July 30th. Additional information is availableAn air tanker makes a fire retardant drop at the Oak Fire near Mariposa, California, on July 24, 2022. The Oak Fire began Friday afternoon near the Sierra foothills community of Midpines in Mariposa County. It was burning about 15 miles west of the Washburn Fire in Yosemite, which as of Monday had consumed some 4,900 acres and was 87% contained.
"She's looking over my shoulder and this home that we had just got married at two weeks ago, it explodes and you're looking at it on a mobile phone," said Steve Ward.
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