This photo provided by Visit Yosemite, Madera County Visitors Bureau, shows Yosemite National Park employees, and a few visitors from France, posing for a photo holding hand fans that read #YosemiteNOW, a hashtag being used to spread the word that the park is open, at the park's Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Most of Yosemite is set to reopen Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018 after a 20-day closure, resulted from a wildfire. (Steve Montalto/Visit Yosemite, Madera County Visitors Bureau via AP)
This photo provided by Visit Yosemite, Madera County Visitors Bureau, shows Yosemite National Park employees, and a few visitors from France, posing for a photo holding hand fans that read #YosemiteNOW, a hashtag being used to spread the word that the park is open, at the park’s Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. (Steve Montalto/Visit Yosemite, Madera County Visitors Bureau via AP)
Yosemite Valley is scheduled to re-open at nine o’clock this morning after the planned reopening was pushed back a day. The U.S. Forest Service announced that Wawona and Mariposa Grove re-opened yesterday morning after being closed due to poor air quality and potential danger associated with the Ferguson Fire. The largest fire in the Sierra National Forest’s history has burned close to 96-thousand-500 acres and is 86 percent contained. The fire has killed two people and injured nearly 20 more, and ten structures have been destroyed.