For nearly two weeks, a miles-wide wildfire has been burning near the ancient massive trees of Sequoia National Park’s famed Giant Forest. But so far, a California fire official says the trees have escaped damage.
“As of right now we don’t have any damage to any of our trees,” said fire information officer Mark Garrett.
The fire recently entered the perimeter of Giant Forest near a cluster of huge trees called the Four Guardsmen but their bases had been wrapped in fire-resistant material and crews had raked and cleared vegetation that could help spread the fire, Garrett said.Firefighting crews monitored as what was described as a “low-intensity fire” passed through and made sure it did not affect the sequoias, he said.
“But like Giant Forest, that one has also seen prescribed burn treatments for several decades since the late ’60s so that grove is also well-equipped to transform a high-intensity fire into low-intensity fire,” he said.The Windy Fire in the Giant Sequoia National Monument area of Sequoia National Forest and on the Tule River Indian Reservation covered more than 42 square miles and was 5% contained.
Several sequoia groves have been impacted by the Windy Fire but it’s not clear whether any other sequoia trees have been burned.
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