“The fortunate thing is the Park Service has done a lot of prescribed burning in there since the 1960s, and so it’s making their job a lot easier,” Jon Wallace, operations section chief on the KNP Complex, said in an update Sunday morning. “As that fire came out of the brush and timber … and up into that Giant Forest, the flame lengths really dropped down to 2 or 3 feet off the ground.”

Source: Washington Post September 20, 2021 16:32 UTC