Quantcast
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 5387

San Francisco water supply safe for now despite massive wildfire burning near Hetch Hetchy

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
by Chris Roberts The massive, out-of-control wildfire burning near Yosemite National Park has torched some of the infrastructure that delivers water and power to San Francisco and is currently menacing a city-owned camp. States of emergency were declared Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown and Mayor Ed Lee, after the Rim Fire – which began Saturday 3 miles east of Groveland along state Highway 120, the main path to Yosemite from the west – tripled in size overnight to 53,000 acres, or 82 square miles.…

[ Read more ]

[ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 5387

Trending Articles