Yosemite, about an hour’s drive from Mariposa County, is home to some of the largest and oldest sequoia trees in the world
. The redwoods were threatened by another blaze earlier this month, but firefighters managed to save them.
Separately, in Idaho, two firefighters died after their helicopter crashed on Saturday while they were battling a blaze called the Moose Fire, in a rural area near the Montana border, according to the Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office. The worst wildfire season on record in California was in 2020, in terms of total acreage burned, with more than 4 million acres and over 10,000 homes and other structures destroyed. At least 33 lives were lost. Over 10 million acres went up in flames across several Western states.
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