Four famous giant sequoias were not harmed by a wildfire that reached the edge of Giant Forest in California’s Sequoia National Park, authorities in the United States have said, amid concerns the blaze could damage the trees.The Four Guardsmen, a group of trees that form a natural entryway on the road to the ancient forest, were successfully protected from the raging KNP Complex fire by the removal of nearby vegetation and by wrapping fire-resistant material around the bases of the trees, the firefighting management team said in a statement on Sunday.Historic drought tied to climate change is making wildfires in the western US harder to fight, and it has killed millions of trees in California alone. A wildfire last year killed thousands of sequoias, some as tall as high-rises and thousands of years old.
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