One of America’s most popular national parks, Yosemite, was closed Thursday as wildfires continued to scorch the West Coast, filling the air with toxic smoke and prompting evacuations in Southern California, officials say.
, the fire roared overnight toward Juniper Hills, an unincorporated community of roughly 400 houses in the San Gabriel foothills.
David Borden, an aeronautical engineer and president of the Juniper Hills Community Association, said he saw flames from the fire a couple of miles from his home early Thursday morning while preparing to go to work in the nearby city of Palmdale. A record 3.4 million acres have burned in California this year, a staggering number that officials and experts have attributed to climate change and a buildup of dried vegetation. Twenty-five people have died in the state, and 5,400 structures have burned in the fires.
“It feels like a nightmare,” Travis Cook told the station. “I still cannot believe — I wake up in the mornings and it's just, like, is this really happening?”
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