Evacuations have been ordered in a Northern California community as a new wildfire spreads.
Jon Wallace, Operations Section Chief, looks over General Sherman where the historic tree was protected by structure wrap from fires along with the Four Guardsmen at Sequoia National Park, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021.
Residents were told to temporarily gather in a parking lot at Shasta College in Redding. The number of residents affected was not immediately known. People living in other areas were warned to be prepared to leave. Some 2,000 structures were threatened. California fires have burned 3,671 square miles this year, destroying more than 3,200 homes, commercial properties and other structures.
The bases of some of the most famous giant sequoias were also wrapped in fire-resistant materials. Giant Forest has 2,000 sequoias and includes the General Sherman Tree, the largest tree in the world by volume. Historic drought tied to climate change is making wildfires harder to fight. It has killed millions of trees in California alone. Scientists say climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
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