California fire crews have so far succeeded in protecting a group of ancient giant sequoias threatened by a wildfire raging through a national park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, authorities said on Monday.
The sequoias dubbed the Four Guardsmen remain unscathed by the so-called KNP Complex fire, which was ignited by lightning earlier this month and has grown in recent days in the Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest.
The huge Guardsmen trees mark the entrance to the Giant Forest, a grove of some 2,000 sequoias. The General Sherman, which stands at 275 feet , or about the height of a 20-story building, is located about 2.5 miles northeast. The KNP Complex fire is one of 13 wildfires currently burning in California, which typically has experienced its peak fire season in late summer and fall. The state is on pace to see more of its landscape go up in flames this year than last, which was the worst year on record for the state.
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