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UPDATE: 6:00 PM 7/27/18 Yosemite Valley is going to remain closed for a little longer than initially planned due to the Ferguson Fire. The Park Service announced today that the valley will reopen on Friday August 3rd at 4:00 PM. The Wawona community and Mariposa Grove will remain closed due to smoke and impacts from the fire. Highway 41 will also remain closed. It’s unknown when they will reopen. The popular park attractions closed earlier this week due to the fire. The closures had been set to expire this Sunday. The Ferguson Fire has now consumed around 46,000 acres and is 29 percent contained. Operations section chief Jake Cagle says shifting winds at night have been a problem on the fire’s southeast flank. “What happens at night for us is, and this is the struggle, all day we have winds coming out of the southwest, which is very beneficial of this area, but at night we get wind that slops out of the north. What that does is that throws showers of embers,” says Cagle. Crews are
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