Reduced to smoke and ash, 5,000 hectares has been charred in some of the worst wild fires in Californian history.<br /><br />More than 2,700 firefighters have been called in to fight the blaze which is edging in on Yosemite National Park.<br /><br />Dousing it with gallons of retardant has had little affect on the flames which have a tendency to burn the tops of trees spreading rapidly across forested areas.<br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/
