Firefighters are continually making headway in fighting the Rim Fire on the outskirts of Yosemite National Park: On Friday, they had contained 32 percent of the blaze, which has now charred a total of 201,894 acres of forest.
It also now has the dubious distinction of being California's 5th largest wildfire in state history; the 4th largest was in Ventura County in 1932, according to Cal Fire. (PDF)
Increasingly confident fire officials said they expect to fully surround the blaze in three weeks, although it will burn for much longer than that.
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The Rim Fire fire has been raging in the heart of the Stanislaus National Forest since Aug. 17, and investigators still haven't announced what sparked it.
A total of 5,500 structures still remained threatened, and so far, 111 buildings were damaged - 11 of them were homes, despite earlier reports that 31 homes had burned. Nearly 5,000 firefighters have now been called in to battle the blaze.
As of Friday, several evacuations orders, including one for Tuolumne City, had been lifted. But Yosemite National Park - which has remained open during the entirety of the fire - had closed Tamarack Flat and Yosemite Creek Campgrounds.
The biggest loss was the complete destruction of Berkeley Tuolumne Camp, a family camp run by the city of Berkeley since 1922. Friends of the camp set up a Facebook page to collect old photos of good times at the camp. As of Thursday, the Berkeley Tuolumne Family Camp Photo Memorial had 1,732 friends.
The other camps in the area, including San Jose Family Camp, San Francisco's Camp Mather and Camp Tawonga were evacuated safely shortly after the fire broke out.
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