Author: Noah Berger
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California wildfires threaten famous giant sequoia trees
THREE RIVERS, Calif. • Firefighters wrapped the base of the world’s largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they tried to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning Thursday in California’s rugged Sierra Nevada. The colossal General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest, some of the other sequoias, the…
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Wildfire: Big rigs abandoned on Calif. highway
SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. • Truckers abandoned big rigs and motorists screamed in fear as they came dangerously close to an explosive wildfire that shut down about 45 miles of a major California interstate near the Oregon border that authorities were desperately trying to reopen. In a video, a passenger in a vehicle screams: “Oh…