Yosemite Foresta Fire update, El Portal in danger?? 8.28.09 7:45 AM
This morning El Portal and western end of Yosemite is blanketed in a thick smoke. There is ash every where in El Portal and there is also a growing concern that the fire might move down into the Merced River Canyon and threaten this town. We all really hope that NPS has a plan to stop the fire from heading this way.
Here we have some photos from the NPS web cam on Turtle Back Dome from 7:30 am and I have drawn in points of reference. El Portal is on the other side of that hill engulfed in flames and down 2,000' into the canyon. It is not even 2 miles away!
It seems like the 1990 fire all over again.
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