Officials are at a point where they they can anticipate repopulating the community of Wawona “likely on Sunday morning.”
OAKHURST — Fire crews continue to make progress in the battle with the Washburn Fire burning in Yosemite National Park, with the blaze being 27 percent contained as of Thursday night.
“We are happy to say that we are finally to a point where we feel we can anticipate reopening — or repopulating, anyway — the community of Wawona likely on Sunday morning,” says Kevin Killian, chief ranger at Yosemite National Park. “We have more information to go through. The fire team, of course, wanted to make sure that is the right thing to do at the right time for the folks out there on the line — the folks that are out there working on the roadway to mitigate all those hazards.
Killian was one of many officials who spoke Thursday night during a public forum about the fire held at the Oakhurst Community Center. The meeting also be live-streamed atKillian was careful to make the distinction that this current reopening plan only applies to property owners and residents of the Wawona community. Tourists will still have to wait before heading back.
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