During the original, artificial firefall event, park employees lit a bonfire on the edge of Glacier Point each night, then poured the red-hot embers over the edge and down into the valley below. In anticipation, spectators would yell, “Let the fire fall!” Eventually, the National Park ...
Sections of the National Park, including its heart, Yosemite Valley, has been closed to visitors since July 25, due to impacts from the blaze, dubbed "Ferguson Fire." Some of the most scenic locations of the park are in the Yosemite Valley. The destructive fire didn't reach the heart of...
美国加州优胜美地国家公园( Yosemite National Park )附近昨天爆发的猛烈野火「橡树大火」( Oak Fire ),扩大延烧,吞噬6000多公顷土地,并迫使数千居民撤离。 法新社报导,数以千万计美国民众正承受酷热高温考验。加州森林防火厅( CAL FIRE )发布报告表示,已...
“Let the Fire Fall!” For decades those words ushered in one ofYosemite National Park’smost famous spectacles: The Yosemite Firefall. Each evening in the summer, a roaring bonfire was built at the edge ofGlacier Pointwhich towers 3,200 feet above Yosemite Valley. By sundown hundreds of spe...
对Yosemite National Park巨杉森林和附近社区造成威胁的Washburn Fire燃烧数日,救火工作终于在11日获得进展。 消防人员努力喷水保护Yosemite数千年树龄的巨杉。(美联社) 最新报告指出,在Sierra Nevada西侧燃烧的Washburn Fire 11日面积已达2340亩,但受控程度已提高到25%。这场山火使公园内Mariposa Grove超过500棵巨型红杉和...
The Glacier Point Firefall was created from actual fire falling from the edge of Glacier Point as a tourist attraction. Photo courtesy: National Park Service The reason this is called “the Firefall” and not the Yosemite fire waterfall or something else stems from an interesting history of amazi...
fire severitySierra Nevadavegetation changeYosemite National ParkIn 1972, Yosemite National Park established a wilderness fire zone in which lightning fires were allowed to run their courses under prescribed conditions. This zone was expanded in 1973 to include the 16 209 ha Illilouette Creek basin, ...
The fire has claimed one firefighter's life and injured six others in the past ten days. Heavy Fire Equipment Operator Braden Varney, 36, was killed on July 14 while using a bulldozer to build a containment line near Yosemite National Park. Part of the fire was only 30 to 50 km south...
The fire area above CA-140 (the "all weather" highway) will be a continuing problem -- the road closed briefly in January, but later rain and snow did not close it. 2015: Spring. Water is running less than normal, but not at record lows mostly because it has been warm so whatever...
美国约塞米蒂国家公园现“火瀑布”奇景range is always the most popular color at YosemiteNational Park in California in February - that's whensun and water come together to put on that glorious(壮丽的)show known as “Firefall”(火瀑布).But if you want to travel there and see it in personin...