Yosemite National Park
Officials have confirmed that the massive Rim Fire burning in and around Yosemite National Park was started by a hunter who let an illegal fire "escape," said the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday.
Firefighters managed to contain 60 percent of the massive Rim Fire burning near Yosemite National Park on Monday.
The massive Rim fire, burning in and around the Yosemite National Park, has burned more than 192,000 acres.
The massive Rim fire, burning in and around the Yosemite National Park, has been declared as the sixth largest wildfire in California's history after growing to over 187,000 acres Tuesday night.
The Rim fire, which continued to burn in the Stanislaus National Forest near Yosemite National Park for a 10th straight day, has become the nation's largest active forest fire and is only 15 percent contained.
The out-of-control wildfire outside of Yosemite Park, known as the Rim Fire, is growing at an alarming rate. By Thursday, the massive wildfire nearly quadrupled in size and is currently only one percent contained.
Over the weekend, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services notified 39 other countries, primarily in the European Union, that people who recently (2012) visited Yosemite National Park may have been infected with the rodent-borne Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.
