Hundreds of firefighters scrambled yesterday to prevent a wildfire engulfing an area of rare giant sequoia trees in California’s Yosemite National Park. The Washburn fire, in the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, was first reported on July 7 and doubled in size over the weekend to 2,340 acres (946 hectares), according to a park report. Yosemite’s fire management service said that 545 firefighters were battling the blaze, including “proactively protecting” the grove – the largest sequoia grove in Yosemite, with over 500 mature trees. Further reinforcements were due to be deployed as the blaze remained out of control with increasingly hot and dry weather forecast, Nancy Phillipe, spokeswoman
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