Smoky, hazardous air from fires shuts Yosemite National Park - Los Angeles Times

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Yosemite National Park will close temporarily starting at 5 p.m. Thursday and will likely remain closed through the weekend because of smoky skies and hazardous air quality, according to a park statement.

Because of smoke from nearby fires, the air over the park will be in the “unhealthy to hazardous range over the next several days,” the statement said.

Airnow.gov showed a 681 pollution score for air in Yosemite Valley; hazardous air scores at 301 and above, with a scale starting at zero. The higher the air-quality index number, the more polluted the air. People breathing hazardous air should stay inside and avoid activity.

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The biggest fire near Yosemite is the Creek fire, which started Sept. 4 and had grown to 244,756 acres as of Thursday afternoon. It’s burning in the Sierra south of Yosemite. Also, two small lightning fires are burning in the southern part of the park.

Sequoia National Park in the western Sierra shut Tuesday because of proximity to the Sequoia Complex or SQF fire, described as a lightning blaze made up of the Castle and Shotgun fires, according to fire-reporting website InciWeb. It started Aug. 24. Sister park Kings Canyon also will close 5 p.m. Thursday because of smoke and hazardous air quality.

All of California’s 18 national forests are closed because of extreme fire risk.

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