More than 600 firefighting personnel are now fighting the KNP Complex, including 21 crews, 21 engines and eight helicopters. There are still a lot of trees falling across the highway, Wallace said Sunday, but professional timber cutters have been called in to help keep that road open for firefighting operations. They were able to get back into the area later Saturday after General’s Highway - the only way in and out of the forest - was cleared of falling rocks and flaming vegetation that had rolled onto the road. Firefighters had to be pulled out for safety reasons. Then the wind picked up Friday afternoon and a smoke inversion lifted, allowing the sun to heat up the vegetation.
Giant Forest trees prepped for flames in Sequoia National Park as KNP Complex fire closes inįlames from the KNP Complex fire could soon reach the sequoias in the Giant Forest, fire crews warn. Crews had been working for the past week to prepare the ancient sequoias by wrapping them in aluminum-foil-like material and raking vegetation from around their bases. Officials were forced to scramble last week - with an urgent call on Saturday for more resources - after the fire swelled and burned through the westernmost tip of the Giant Forest near the Four Guardsmen, a grouping of giant sequoias that marks the forest’s entrance. These areas could close with little notice,” the National Park Service said in a Facebook post.
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“We recommend coming prepared with food, drinks, N95 masks, and a full tank of gas. Grant Grove and Cedar Grove in Kings Canyon remained open, but the National Park Service warned that visitors should expect poor air quality and low visibility in those areas, as most visitor services have been halted. Photos of the Windy fire near the Tule River Reservation in the Sequoia National Forest as crews from the Sierra Cobras and Roosevelt Hotshots fight it. Photos: Windy fire blows through Sequoia National Forest
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