Crews over the weekend scrambled to protect the Giant Forest, home to the General Sherman tree, known as the largest tree on Earth.
The Windy fire has scorched more than 39 square miles and is only 4% contained.
“We don’t know that those are destroyed,” she said, “but the fire has completely surrounded those two groves.”remains a significant threat with 0% containment, but firefighters have managed to defend many of the trees within the fire’s path. “Because those fuels are so light in there, because there’s been so much active [forest] management in there over the last 40 years, the flame lengths in there are down to less than three feet,” he said, noting that crews were now focused on mopping up small fires that were caught inside scars on the trees’ trunks.
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