Breaking! Large Fire erupts at Yosemite national park!

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Middle of nowhere fire....way to go op. Your first doom tard award

I'm not from this area so I wouldn't know what the normal fire truck is in these parts. They weren't normal red trucks cities use though. They seem especially suited to wilderness fires as they looked capable of offloading. Besides there there were police rushing down there. This was more than two hours after we first saw the smoke

Like I said I don't know why the signs are there. But it had the words CONTROLLED FIRE DO NOT REPORT

You must be new to that fire spreads so stop trolling my thread n leave.

Trolling? I posted the only photo. It seriously is in the middle of nowhere.

Here's your award...:gaythread2:

Disregard the boneheads who can't conduct a normal conversation. Don't respond to them. I live up here in the Sierra's and there have been lots of US forst service trucks around lately. Fire season has come early though, as you probably know. There are some other possiblities with respect to how this fire got started, but most people will just accept the usual explanations. Given what is going on in the world right now, this could be someting else. Fire is an excellant weapon, especially when it comes down from a source other than a lightning storm! Stay safe, and good night!

A forest fire on the West Coast? Unbelievable! DOOOOOOOOOOOOM

I hope none of the giant trees burn. Yosemite is incredible.

Did anyone actually search?
Apparently journalist have few detective skills also.

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A wildfire that burned between 300 and 500 acres near Foresta in Yosemite National Park on Saturday afternoon forced mandatory evacuations for the community, said park spokeswoman Kari Cobb.

The blaze started mid-afternoon and was moving northeast and uphill, towards Foresta’s big meadow,

The cause of the fire remains unknown. There have been more than 3,000 lightning strikes in or around Yosemite since July 14, but there haven’t been strikes near Foresta recently, Cobb said.

The park is monitoring a few other lightning fires in the high Sierra, she said.

Between 3:30 and 4 p.m., an El Portal resident heard the sound of an electric line shorting, and within minutes smoke and flames were close to homes in the community. The blaze then moved up the hill, threatening Foresta homes on the other side of the ridge.

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mag-ma?

Cal Fire does them all the time for hazard reduction; occasionally one gets away for a bit.

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Well-chosen controlled burns are sometimes the smartest thing during a drought, to reduce risk of much bigger uncontrolled blazes.

At present, this one is a blip compared to last year's Rim Fire. That was a monster.

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lava again?
there's so much lava on the west coast every year

That's what was reported in SB, but it wasn't the truth.

do you know how fast magma rises? at about the rate your fingernails grow. people think it's some fast flowing fluid, but that is only true once it makes the break through.

until then, it gets closer and closer to the surface, obviously making the surface hotter and hotter. this isn't something that happens QUICKLY. it can take years, decades, centuries even, but to me, with EVERYTHING going on in the NW of the USA, this is just another red flag we should be throwing onto the huge pile of red flags lately.

because YOU say so?

Everyone is at the waffle house.

Those so called white flags are bleached out. You can faintly see the stars and strips on them. I saw it on the news. You can see the stars and stripes but why they are " Bleached and not Colored is the mystery.

Because there were kids partying. I live in the area. I hear things.
...Unless we're talking about different fires. We get a lot of them in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.

Were you thinking of the one in Thousand Oaks/Camarillo? THAT one was caused from heat from the ground.

Correction: Not Thousand Oaks. Newbury Park/Camarillo.

that's interesting.



two of us thought we read Yellowstone.