it is dangerous for them right now. everything is a calculated risk when it comes to firefighting, but any time you re establishing a line on top of a ridge and the fire is below you, that s one of the recipes we have for disaster. amazing. gary joins me live from groveland, california. what is the latest for the fire damage in yosemite park? reporter: 6% of the park, anderson, has been consumed by flames, 41,000 acres, but it s not the part of the park where tourists go. we mentioned before the yosemite valley and the southern part of the park hasn t been touched yet. also not touched yet are groves of sequoia trees. these are some of the tallest and oldest living things in the universe. some of the trees, anderson, are up to 300 feet tall, that s the length of a football field, and some of them are up to 3500 years old. gary, appreciate the reporting. stay safe. isha has the bulletin.
towards the community. reporter: the murphys are grateful for the people working to save their home. they are incredible. what can you say? they are just so on top of this. they are so coordinated. reporter: and they are also exposed and vulnerable. it is dangerous for them right now. everything is a calculated risk when it comes to firefighting, but any time you re establishing a line on top of a ridge and the fire is below you, that s one of the recipes we have for disaster. amazing. gary joins me live from groveland, california. what is the latest for the fire damage in yosemite park? reporter: 6% of the park, anderson, has been consumed by flames, 41,000 acres, but it s not the part of the park where tourists go. we mentioned before the yosemite valley and the southern part hasn t been touched yet. also not touched yet are groves of sequoia trees. these are some of the tallest and oldest living things in the
all of a sudden, a spot fire breaks out. it is like this for miles up and down the road. and then there is this, a fire team deployed to protect three dozen yosemite s sequoia trees some of the oldest living things on earth in need of protection now. neal karlinsky, abc news, yosemite national park. for a large portion of the middle of the country the problem is late summer heat wave. right now the scorching temperatures especially tough on kids back in school with no air conditioning in classrooms many of them. school districts in several sweltering states sent the kids home early yesterday and they will probably have to do the same thing today. sometimes the rooms can actually reach temperatures over 100 degrees in which we do not want students or staff to be in those rooms. we ask them to go to better ventilated areas. they re even doing all they can to make it cooler for the pigs at the minnesota state fair. the swine barn installed a new $200,000 ventilation system to keep t
commented. the victim s family plans to take legal action. new for you this morning, fire crews say that they have made progress against the raging wildfire near yosemite national park. still more than 234 square miles have burned. that s roughly the size of chicago. take a look at this dramatic picture. you can see the wind whipping the flames above the sequoia trees. more than 3,000 men and women are inside those flames. that s where the heat can reach more than 800 degrees. firefighters are also struggling to protect a huge reservoir that is in san francisco. it supplies 85% of the city s water and is being slowly polluted with ash. a minnesota campground is closed this morning after a teenager was attacked by a wolf. this is the picture of the wolf that state and wildlife officials think bit the 16-year-old boy on the head while he was sleeping outside of his tent. the teenager will be okay. that wolf trapped and killed. and is being tested now for
all of a sudden, a spot fire breaks out. it is like this for miles up and down the road. and then there is this, a fire team deployed to protect three dozen yosemite s sequoia trees some of the oldest living things on earth in need of protection now. neal karlinsky, abc news, yosemite national park. for a large portion of the middle of the country the problem is late summer heat wave. right now the scorching temperatures especially tough on kids back in school with no air conditioning in classrooms many of them. school districts in several sweltering states sent the kids home early yesterday and they will probably have to do the same thing today. sometimes the rooms can actually reach temperatures over 100 degrees in which we do not want students or staff to be in those rooms. we ask them to go to better ventilated areas. they re even doing all they can to make it cooler for the pigs at the minnesota state fair. the swine barn installed a new $200,000 ventilation system to keep t