Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

This album features images from the 2021 KNP Complex Fire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Images include fire burning in the foothills or giant sequoia mixed-conifer forests, fire effects on vegetation, and fire operations.

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Three firefighters are spread out along a fireline looking toward a fire burning in a conifer forest in front of them. A charged fire hose is laid out along the fireline behind them.

Firefighters Monitor Burnout O...

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Two firefighters use drip torches to ignite dry grasses along the edge of a road where they create a burned barrier to help slow or stop the wildfire.

Firing Operations along Roadwa...

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View of two firefighters wearing blue hardhats, firefighting line gear, and carrying tools as they hike into a conifer forest.

Firefighters hike into area bu...

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Firefighter - wearing Nomex clothes, a red hard hat, and carrying a pack and maddock tool - hikes toward giant sequoias with charred bases in a burned area.

Firefighter Surveys Burn Area ...

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Six people wearing yellow and green Nomex fire clothes and hardhats wrap silver fire shelter material around the base of a very large giant sequoia tree.

General Sherman Tree Wrap

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Two large sequoias have shiny silver fire shelter material wrapped around their bases, and fire and smoke can be seen just beyond these trees.

Giant Sequoias with Fire Shelt...

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Several sprinklers attached to hoses around the General Grant Tree moisten the area to reduce the threat of burning in an approaching wildfire. Firefighter in background is dwarfed by the size of this tree!

General Grant Tree with Sprink...

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Three Firefighters wrap historic entrance sign for Sequoia National Park with silver fire shelter material to protect it from a wildfire. Oak trees and dense smoke from wildfire can be seen in the background.

Wrapping Historic Entrance Sig...

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A man wearing a hard hat and wildland firefighting pack and clothing stands on top of a large tree that was cut down, looking out over a forest with burning logs and shrubs.

Dead Tree Removal Reduces Fire...

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Several firefighters and headlights from a vehicle along a park road, with large amounts of smoke, burning embers, and an orange glow from the fire rising up from below the road.

Fire Smoke and Glow, Night Ope...

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About 20 firefighters load two trucks with fire hoses and other firefighting gear hauled out of firelines in shrublands in Sequoia National Park.

Post-fire Gear Removal

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Bright red fire retardant drops from a large helicopter onto an area of oak trees and shrubs with a smoky sky in the background.

Fire Retardant Drop

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A fire burns on a slope of shrub and oak vegetation, and a large helicopter drops water from a bucket attached with a long line onto burning shrubs .

Wildfire Water Drop

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In dense shrub vegetation, a small dozer scrapes the soil of an old fire road to widen it and make it a more effective fireline on the KNP Complex Fire.

Dozer Improves Fire Road

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A small cabin and a sign, along a trail in a conifer forest, are entirely wrapped in shiny silver fire shelter material to protect them from an approaching wildfire.

Historic Cabin Wrapped for Fir...

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Aerial view of a sequoia grove showing a few areas still smoking from the fire, clusters or individual trees that have brown needles, and many trees that are green and probably only sustained low severity fire.

Atwell Grove Aerial View

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Aerial view of giant sequoias and other conifers showing many green trees and a few patches of trees with brown needles and some that were charred black by fire. The images shows mixed severity fire effects from the KNP Complex Fire.

Muir Grove Aerial View

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Fire burns among conifer trees and woody material on ground, with the large granite face of Moro Rock and a smoky sky in the background.

Fire Burns near Moro Rock, Seq...

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Slope with many dead pine and cedar trees, killed by the KNP Complex Fire. Below is a steep slope with more trees that have brown needles or leaves, also injured or killed by the fire.

Dead Conifer Trees and High Se...

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Looking upward at more than a dozen giant sequoias that have charred bark and dead needles from burning at high severity in the KNP Complex Fire.

Giant Sequoia Trees after High...

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fire, wildfire, firefighting, fire operations, giant sequoias, fire effects, tree mortality, oak woodlands, chaparral shrublands, foothills, fire severity wildland fire