California fires threaten giant sequoias

Updated September 17 2021 - 9:15am, first published 9:12am
The Colony Fire is burning near the Giant Forest, home to more than 2000 giant sequoias.
The Colony Fire is burning near the Giant Forest, home to more than 2000 giant sequoias.

Firefighters have wrapped the base of the world's largest tree in a fire-resistant blanket as they try to save a famous grove of gigantic old-growth sequoias from wildfires burning in California's rugged Sierra Nevada.

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