Park officials have been working to contain the spread of the fires using water and aerial drops of fire retardant. Since then, they have scorched thousands of acres of steep terrain, bringing them to the foot of some of the world’s oldest and largest trees in the Giant Sequoia National Monument of the Sequoia National Forest, and in Kings Canyon National Park in Central California.
Three wildfires, named Colony, Paradise and Windy, were ignited by lightning on Sept. Firefighters are swaddling giant sequoias in a flame-retardant foil in an effort to protect the ancient trees from wildfires that are raging through national parks in California, officials said.
