Yosemite National Park wildfires explode in size, US takes emergency action to save sequoias

Due to the fires in Yosemite National Park, the U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to save the giant sequoias

By Sarah Rumpf | Fox News

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A fast-moving wildfire nearYosemite National Parkexploded in size Saturday and prompted evacuations even as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias.

The Oak Fire, which began Friday afternoon southwest of the park near Midpines in Mariposa County, grew to 10.2 square miles (26.5 square kilometers) by Saturday morning, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.

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