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The trio began hiking from the Merry-Go-Round area, and when they did not return on time, family members waiting in the parking lot called 911.
Over 2,000 people are working on the fire, which has grown close to 19,000 acres in size and has been 55 percent contained.
Two late July storms that brought the Sierra Nevada the Aspen Fire and numerous road closures in Death Valley also left trails and roads damaged in Inyo National Forest.
The lightning-caused blaze has charred closed to 18,000 acres since Monday, July 22.
Three hours from the bright lights of Los Angeles, Borrego Springs can lay claim to something other communities cannot: its nighttime wonder.
A portion of a popular talus cave in Pinnacles National Park reopened this morning after biologists found that a colony of protected bats had left.
Burning for over a week in the steep, rugged terrain of the Sierra Nevadas, the Aspen Fire has continued to grow in Fresno County
The acreage on the fire slowed considerably yesterday, only gaining 185 acres in day's time.
The storms that brought down hundreds of lightning strikes last week, igniting 19 small fires in the two Forest Service units, also brought rain, but it did not help much.
A team of nearly 1,700 people are working on a wildfire deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The country's newest national park is now operating under a new document that guides development within park boundaries over the next 10 or 20 years
The blaze has been burning in steep, rugged, and inaccessible terrain since last Monday evening, and fire crews only started making a dent in containing the blaze Friday.