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Yosemite Fire Now Threatens Giant Sequoias

Officials dig in as blaze looms 4 miles away

(Newser) - The Yosemite wildfire that is threatening to take out San Francisco's utilities now has some of the planet's biggest and oldest living things in its crosshairs: Firefighters are digging in around two groves of giant sequoias—about three dozen in all—taking the precautions of setting sprinklers and...

Yosemite Fire Threatens San Francisco Utilities

City in state of emergency over massive wildfire 150 miles away

(Newser) - It's some 150 miles away, but a massive wildfire burning in the Sierra foothills in and around Yosemite National Park has triggered a state of emergency in San Francisco, reports the Chronicle . The Rim Fire threatens transmission lines that carry power to the city, along with the reservoir that...

Calif. Wildfire Now Twice as Big as San Francisco

Rim Fire threatens Yosemite National Park

(Newser) - Tourists fled the area around Yosemite National Park yesterday, as a wildfire headed for the park quadrupled in size. The Rim Fire is now 63,000 acres, or about twice the size of San Francisco, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The main highway leading to the park was closed...

Love Yosemite? Leave it Alone
 Love Yosemite? Leave it Alone 
Jul 29, 2013 4:36 PM CDT

Love Yosemite? Leave it Alone

New plan to protect the park will cut facilities like bike rentals and rafting

(Newser) - The National Park Service is under pressure to help protect and restore the Merced River in Yosemite National Park. The catch: those who love it most will be able to use it less. The Park Service wants to remove horse, bicycle, and raft rental facilities, as well as swimming pools...

Falling Tree Kills Camp Counselor Near Yosemite

Staff members were eating breakfast outside at the time

(Newser) - Staff members at a summer camp near Yosemite National Park were having breakfast outdoors yesterday when they felt what the parent of one counselor described as an earthquake. About 40 feet of a large, 53-inch diameter black oak tree snapped off and came crashing down from 32 feet up, killing...

Yosemite Suffers 2 Deaths in 2 Days

Felix Joseph Kiernan struck by falling rock

(Newser) - Just one day after a teen was swept over a Yosemite waterfall , likely to his death, another person died in the national park. Felix Joseph Kiernan was climbing El Capitan on Sunday when his climbing partner dislodged a rock, officials say. The sizable rock (it measured 1 foot across and...

Teen Swept Over 594-Foot Yosemite Waterfall

Fall would be impossible to survive, rangers say

(Newser) - After a day and a half of searching, rescue teams in Yosemite National Park fear a notorious stretch of river has claimed yet another life. Aleh Kalman, 19, was swimming in the Merced River 150 feet upstream from Nevada Fall on Saturday afternoon when he was caught by the current...

Yosemite's Smokey Problem: Potheads

Drugs busts are 4 times as high as next closest national park

(Newser) - Ah, Yosemite: That iconic symbol of nature where generations of tourists have hiked, snapped pictures, camped, and ... smoked a lot of weed? As NBC Bay Area reports, drug busts at Yosemite are up 18% in the six years on the record books, and are four times as high as the...

Yosemite Bus Crash Injures 16
 Yosemite Bus Crash Injures 16 
Apr 14, 2013 7:16 AM CDT

Yosemite Bus Crash Injures 16

Only the driver is uninjured

(Newser) - A bus carrying visitors from Yosemite National Park crashed on a main highway south of the park, leaving 16 people injured, the California Highway Patrol said today. The bus was about 40 miles south of the park when it went off Highway 41 and over and embankment about 6pm yesterday....

9th Person at Yosemite Contracts Hantavirus

Three have died so far from the infection

(Newser) - The National Park Service says a ninth visitor to Yosemite National Park has been infected with the rodent-borne illness hantavirus. Park officials announced the case today and said the unidentified person has recovered. Eight other visitors to the park have contracted the illness, and three of them died . The majority...

Third Person Dies From Hantavirus at Yosemite

A total of eight have been infected

(Newser) - A West Virginia resident who visited Yosemite at some point over the summer has become the third person to die from the park's hantavirus outbreak , reports the Los Angeles Times . Health officials announced the death today, along with an additional infection, bringing the total to eight. The CDC warned...

2 New Hantavirus Cases Linked to Yosemite

Six so far hit with rare viral infection

(Newser) - Authorities have identified two new cases of hantavirus—and officially confirmed an earlier non-fatal case—bringing to six the number of people infected while camping in Yosemite National Park in California. Two people have already died, and authorities fear thousands could be at risk for the unusual viral infection, which...

Yosemite Widens Hantavirus Alert

Advising campers of risk is 'No. 1 priority'

(Newser) - Yosemite National Park officials are stepping up their efforts to alert past visitors to its Curry Village that they may have been exposed to hantavirus. Some 2,900 letters and emails have now been sent to people who bunked in a "signature tent cabin" between June 10 and Aug....

Yosemite to 1.7K Visitors: You Might Have Hantavirus

Warning goes out after second death

(Newser) - Following a second death from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Yosemite National Park officials are warning 1,700 summer visitors that they, too, could have contracted the rodent-borne disease. Those in danger came to the park between June and August and stayed in the "Signature Tent Cabins" in the park's...

2nd Yosemite Camper Dies of Hantavirus

4 suspected with viral infection stayed at same camp

(Newser) - A second person has died from the rare hantavirus infection after staying at a Yosemite campsite in California. Both victims and two others who may have contracted the virus all spent time in tent cabins at the popular Curry Village campground, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . "This is being...

Young Brothers Swept Away in Yosemite River

Boy, 10, dead; 6-year-old presumed dead

(Newser) - More tragedy in Yosemite : Authorities were searching a stretch of the Merced River for a 6-year-old boy after his older brother died when a current swept them away during a family outing in the national park. The boy is presumed dead. Other hikers pulled the body of his 10-year-old brother...

Yosemite Might Get Bigger
 Yosemite Might Get Bigger 
Jul 18, 2012 1:00 PM CDT

Yosemite Might Get Bigger

Park could increase by 1,575 acres

(Newser) - If Congress passes a bill currently on Capitol Hill, Yosemite National Park could get bigger. Of course, that's a big if, since some in Washington see the expansion of government-owned land as a bad thing. Advocates, including the bill's author, Democrat Rep. Jim Costa, are pushing lawmakers to...

Yosemite's New Danger: Plunging Boulders

Park service will close popular attractions permanently over danger of falling rocks

(Newser) - It used to be that you had to watch out for bears, forest fires , or even waterfalls at Yosemite, but there's a new danger at the iconic national park: Falling boulders are now closing swaths of some popular haunts for good. The National Park Service will today announce that...

Yosemite Waterfall to Turn to 'Fire' This Week

Horsetail Fall blazes in winter sunset

(Newser) - A confluence of just-the-right weather conditions at the perfect time of day—and year —can turn a Yosemite waterfall into a cascade of fire—at least, that's what it looks like. Sometime in mid-February the setting sun lights up one of the waterfalls of the national park in...

3rd Body Found in Yosemite River

Discovery is likely waterfall victim Ramina Badal

(Newser) - Yosemite park rangers believe a grim find in the Merced River will allow them to close the books on one of the park's worst tragedies. A body discovered in the river is believed to be that of 21-year-old Ramina Badal, the third of three young hikers swept over a...

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