California wildfire reaches Yosemite National Park: firefighters battling to protect iconic park
A wildfire raging in Northern California burned into Yosemite National Park on Friday (August 23), as the blaze threatened one of the state's most popular tourist destinations and resisted firefighters' efforts to control it. The so-called Rim Fire exploded in size to become the fastest-growing of 50 large wildfires burning in the U.S. West and had blackened 11,000 acres at the northeastern edge of Yosemite as of Friday.
