Wildfire in the Hite Cove Area outside of Yosemite has quadrupled in size, highway 140 is closed going into Yosemite and evacuations have been ordered. Smoke has started to spread as far as the Eastern Sierra around Lee Vining.
Read more in the San Francisco Chronicle Deadly Yosemite fire grows to 4,310 acres, evacuations ordered – SFGate and Fresno Bee Evacuations remain in place for 4,000 acre Ferguson Fire, roads closed west of Yosemite
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