If you're planning to be in the Tahoe Basin this weekend, you may smell a tinge of wildfire smoke.
The Washburn Fire started south of the Mariposa Grove at about 2 p.m. on July 7. The grove was evacuated Thursday and is closed until further notice, Yosemite National Park said. Yosemite National Park spokesperson Scott Gediman told SFGATE on Friday morning that flames had reached the lower grove.
in Amador County also sent some smoke into the Tahoe Basin in recent days. Hand said smoke over the fire on Friday morning was minimal. The fire was 4,428 acres and 65% contained on Friday., with air quality reaching unhealthy, even dangerous, levels. The amount of smoke being produced by the Washburn Fire is nowhere near Caldor Fire levels.
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