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National Park Service director gets firsthand look at the Rim fire
2013-08-31 22:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As the Rim fire has burned into Yosemite National Park and into the record books, it has been watched around the world. From Washington, D.C., National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis said he monitored the blaze's progress daily as flames threatened Sierra Nevada communities, ancient sequoia groves and the reservoir that holds San Francisco's water supply. On Saturday, he went to see the blaze firsthand. "This is a gnarly fire," Jarvis told firefighters at a morning briefing. "It's got high...
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Californian Rim fire heads towards Yosemite's famed sequoia trees
2013-08-31 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A massive wildfire that has charred the northwestern edge of California's Yosemite national park is heading towards two groves of the park's famed sequoia trees, the national park service director, Jonathan Jarvis, said as firefighters battled the blaze on Saturday. The so-called Rim fire, which now has an overall footprint that exceeds the area of Dallas, has burned about 6% of Yosemite's wilder backcountry but the vast majority of the park was still unaffected, Jarvis said. The sequoias are...
Rim Fire Spares Some Camps, Reaches 32 Percent Containment
2013-08-31 07:43:20| IT Services - Topix.net
Photo of Rim Fire firefight courtesy of SSgt Ed Drew of the California Air National Guard's 129th Rescue Wing.
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Yosemite Rim Fire is taste of things to come
2013-08-27 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: San Francisco is in a declared state of emergency, its power and water supplies threatened by one of the largest fires on record in California. The blaze is 250 kilometres to the east of the city, on the fringes of Yosemite National Park. It is a grim warning of profound changes that may lie ahead, as the western US comes to terms with a new ecology of fire, wrought by climate change. The Rim Fire is already the seventh largest in California since records began in the 1930s, having so far torched...
California's Rim Fire now 20 Percent Contained, but Homes and Resources Still Threatened
2013-08-27 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: California's Rim Fire, which now covers an area larger than Chicago, continues to burn though the Stanislaus National Forest and a portion of Yosemite National Park, but firefighters have more of a handle on the enormous wildfire than at any point to-date. Relying heavily on fire-fighting airplanes and helicopters, crews made significant gains in battling the blaze, with the latest update from the Incident Information System (Inciweb), which handles California's wildfire information, indicating...
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