Some Good News Comes Out of Rim Fire Area

Submitted by paula on Wed, 10/02/2013 - 9:12pm

The risky measures taken by firefighters to save a stand of giant trees standing in the way of the third-largest blaze in California history worked. Firefighters set back fires to save Yosemite’s Rockefeller, Merced and Tuolumne groves of giant sequoias and giant pines. The tallest sugar pine, 264 ft, lived according to the Sugar Pine Foundation.

In other Rim Fire News, the fire is still burning north of Yosemite. it is now 92% contained and has burned 257,135 acres (402 square miles) to date.