Three Rivers: Firefighters wrap the largest tree base in the world in fire resistant blankets when they tried to save the famous forests of the sequoias of the old giant growth of the burned forest fires on a rough Sierra Nevada in California.
The General Sherman Colossal tree in the giant forest of Sequoia National Park, several other sequoias, giant forest museums and other buildings wrapped in protection against the possibility of intense fires, a fire spokesman Rebecca Paterson.
Aluminum wrappers can withstand intensive heat for a short time.
Federal officials said they had used material for several years throughout the US west to protect the sensitive structure of fire.
Near Lake Tahoe, several houses wrapped in protective material from the fire recently while others nearby were destroyed.
Colony Fire, one of two combusances in Sequoia National Park, is expected to reach a giant forest, forest 2,000 sequoias, at a time in a few days.
It was not clear Thursday night if it happened.
The fire did not grow significantly as a layer of smoke reducing its spread, said Fire spokesman Katy Hooper.
It came after the forest was killed killing thousands of Sequoias, some as high as rising high and thousands of years, in the region last year.
The general Sherman tree is the largest in the world based on volume, at 52,508 cubic feet (1,487 cubic meters), according to national park services.
The tower is 275 feet (84 meters) high and has around 103 feet (31 meters) on the ground.
Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park Inspector Clay Jordan stressed the importance of protecting large trees from high intensity fires during briefing for firefighters.
The 50-year history uses intentionally determined burns to eliminate the type of tree and other vegetation which otherwise will feed forest fires – in Park Sequoia Park is expected to help giant trees survive by reducing the impact if the fire.
A ‘strong fire history of fire prescribed in the area is the reason for optimism,’ said Paterson.
“Hopefully, giant forests will emerge from those who are not injured but the intensity of the fire is extraordinary – driven by climate change – can flood the tree.
It happened last year when Castle Fire killed the estimated study of what 7,500 to 10,600 sequoias was large, according to national park services .
Drought and heat wave historic associated with climate change have made forest fires more difficult to fight in the American West.
scientists say climate change has made the region was much warmer and drier in the last 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and Forest fires are more frequent and destructive.
A National Fire Management Team took the command of attempts to fight the Fire Paradise 11.5 square miles (30 kilometers) and a 3-mile colony (8-kilometer), which was closest to the Grove..
operation for Burning vegetation and other fuels that can feed the flame done in the area.
The rape of imposing the evacuation of the park this week, and the parts of the city of three rivers outside the main entrance remained evacuated Thursday.
Bulldozer cuts the line between the fire and the community.
To the south, the fire at the Tule River Indian reservation and at the National Sequoia National Monument grew significantly overnight to more than 6 square miles (15 square kilometers), and the crew did not have detention, said Sequoia National Forest Statement.
Windy fire, it also starts with lightning, has been burned into part of Peyrone Sequoia Grove in a national monument, and other gardens threatened.
`Because of the inaccessible fields, a preliminary assessment of the effect of fire on giant sequoia trees in the forest will be difficult and may take days to complete, ” said the statement.
The fire led the Tulare County Sheriff office to warn the Johnsondale and Camp Whitett community, a boy Scouts Camp, was ready to evacuate if necessary.
The Wildfires are among the newest in the long summer of the Blazes that have scorched nearly 3,550 square miles (9,195 square kilometers) in California, destroying hundreds of homes.
The crew has limited land access to the extreme colonies and steepness from the field around the Heaven’s fire preventing it completely, requiring broad air water and fire shots on both fire.
Both fires are managed collectively as complex KNP .-
California Wildfires threatens a famous giant sequoia tree
