Satellite images show a plume of smoke rising from a wildfire near California’s Yosemite National Park that forced evacuations as it grew during a weekend of sweltering temperatures.
“It's hot out there again today," Cal Fire spokesperson Natasha Fouts said Sunday. “And the fuel moisture levels are critically low.”living across a several-mile span of the sparsely populated area in the Sierra Nevada foothills, though a handful of residents defied the orders and stayed behind, said Adrienne Freeman with the U.S. Forest Service.Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for Mariposa County due to the fire's effects.
Numerous roads were closed, including a stretch of State Route 140 that's one of the main routes into Yosemite.
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